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mercilessly

/ˈmɜːsɪləslɪ/

mercilessly adverb: in a merciless manner.

Adverb

mercilessly (comparative more mercilessly, superlative most mercilessly)

  1. In a merciless manner.
    • She mercilessly read off the list of his wrongs in front of their friends.
    • Therefore he whacked the old nigger mercilessly, while a big crowd of his people watched him, thunderstruck[.]1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 198

mercilessly meaning in Urdu and Bengali

mercilessly in Urdu

بےرحمی سے, سنگ دلی سے

mercilessly in Bengali

নির্দয় ভাবে

Forms of mercilessly

comparativemore mercilessly
superlativemost mercilessly

Origin of mercilessly

From merciless + -ly.

Questions about mercilessly

What does mercilessly mean?
Mercilessly means in a merciless manner.
What is mercilessly in Urdu?
Mercilessly in Urdu is بےرحمی سے, سنگ دلی سے. See Mercilessly meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is mercilessly?
Mercilessly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce mercilessly?
Mercilessly is pronounced /ˈmɜːsɪləslɪ/.

Words near mercilessly in the dictionary

  1. mercifulness
  2. mercifulnesses
  3. mercify
  4. mercifying
  5. merciless
  6. mercilessly
  7. mercilessness
  8. mercilessnesses
  9. merciness
  10. mercing
  11. mercing up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mercilessly (page history and authors); mercilessly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mercilessly (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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