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pityless

pityless is the archaic form of pitiless.

Meaning of pitiless

Adjective

pitiless (comparative more pitiless, superlative most pitiless)

  1. 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...
  2. Having no kind feelings; unkind.

Forms of pityless

comparativemore pityless
superlativemost pityless

Questions about pityless

What is pityless the archaic form of?
Pityless is the archaic form of pitiless.

Words near pityless in the dictionary

  1. pity potty
  2. pityful
  3. pitying
  4. pityingly
  5. pityings
  6. pityless
  7. pitylessly
  8. pitylessness
  9. pityriases
  10. pityriasic
  11. pityriasis

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