pitiless
/ˈpɪtɪləs/
pitiless adjective: having, or showing, no pity; merciless, ruthless.
Adjective
pitiless (comparative more pitiless, superlative most pitiless)
- Having, or showing, no pity; merciless, ruthless.
- O God! can I not save / One from the pitiless wave? / Is all that we see or seem / But a dream within a dream?1849 March 31, Edgar Allan Poe, “A Dream Within a Dream”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: […], volumes II (Poems and Miscellanies), New York, N.Y.: J. S. Redfield, […], published 1850...
- Her clothes were torn to mere shreds and tatters, and through the pitiful rags her once white and tender skin showed raw and bleeding from contact with the thousand pitiless thorns and brambles through which she had been dragged.1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Fifty Frightful Men”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 319
- Synonyms:
- compassionless, hardhearted, unsympathetic, barbarous, bowelless, brutal, cruel, flagitious, demonic, despiteful
- Having no kind feelings; unkind.
pitiless meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
pitiless in Urdu
- بےدرد, کٹر, ناترس
pitiless in Malayalam
- കനിവില്ലാത്ത, ദയയില്ലാത്ത, നിഷ്കരുണമായ, നിഷ്ഠൂരമായ
pitiless in Kannada
- ನಿರ್ದಯ, ನಿಷ್ಕರುಣೆಯ, ಕನಿಕರವಿಲ್ಲದ, ಮರುಗದ
Examples of pitiless in a sentence
- A pitiless, death-bearing posterity lies on the earth without cries of grief.
- Is a conscious individualist, cold-blooded, pitiless, working only for himself, and believing in nothing but himself.
- And now, this pitiless light, undiluted by elven love and judgment, burst through me like the arrows of the stars.
Synonyms of pitiless
- compassionless
- hardhearted
- unsympathetic
- barbarous
- brutal
- cruel
- flagitious
- demonic
- diabolic
- diabolical
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Forms of pitiless
| comparative | more pitiless |
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| superlative | most pitiless |
Origin of pitiless
From Middle English piteeles, pyteles; equivalent to pity + -less.
Words formed from pitiless
Questions about pitiless
- What does pitiless mean?
- Pitiless means having, or showing, no pity; merciless, ruthless.
- What is pitiless in Urdu?
- Pitiless in Urdu is بےدرد, کٹر, ناترس. See Pitiless meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is pitiless?
- Pitiless is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce pitiless?
- Pitiless is pronounced /ˈpɪtɪləs/.
Words near pitiless in the dictionary
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