Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having no mercy; cruel.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Destitute of mercy; unfeeling; pitiless; hard-hearted; cruel; relentless; unsparing: as, a merciless tyrant.
- Without hope of mercy.
- Synonyms Unmerciful, severe, inexorable, unrelenting, barbarous, savage.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having or showing no mercy
Etymologies
- mercy + -less (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But they returned in the late morning, shaken by what they described as a merciless surprise attack by government forces with rocket- propelled grenades and heavy artillery.”
“But they returned in the late morning, shaken by what they described as a merciless surprise attack by government forces with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy artillery.”
“Opening the prosecution case today, Gerard Elias QC said the two double killings ammounted to what he called merciless executions for pitifully small gain.”
“They are described as merciless with people who tell them less than the truth.”
“It's addressed to his supporters both inside and outside Iraq and it takes a swipe at Americans, which Saddam refers to as merciless tyrants.”
“And it takes a swipe at Americans, which Saddam refers to as merciless tyrants.”
“He is filled with what might be called a merciless pity, a sympathy almost malicious.”
“She reflected; and with her acute memory for the letter of Angel Clare's remarks, even when she did not comprehend their spirit, she recalled a merciless polemical syllogism that she had heard him use when, as it occasionally happened, he indulged in a species of thinking aloud with her at his side.”
“Clare's remarks, even when she did not comprehend their spirit, she recalled a merciless polemical syllogism that she had heard him use when, as it occasionally happened, he indulged in a species of thinking aloud with her at his side.”
“(The folding was incessant; it recalled the merciless "Saturday Night Live" Gap Girls skits.)”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘merciless’.
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-more or -less
Words ending with *more or *less, more or less. Many of theses terms also appear on the list The -less Said, which see.
schemaless, unless, useless, guileless, wireless, regardless, homeless, endless, nevertheless, countless, jobless, doubtless and 434 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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Go over
mollify, obstinate, obviate, occlude, onerous, obscure, paragon, pedantic, perfunctory, placate, placid, prodigal and 364 more...
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jan_21
magoosh listens
infuriating, imperciptible, sporadic, galvanize, shirk, protean, versatile, auspicious, clairvoyance, nary, presentiment, qualm and 63 more...
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Expressions
(Facial)
pained, pitiful, reproachful, annoyed, dismissive, excited, eager, spiteful, contemptuous, passive, calm, nervous and 155 more...
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The -less Said...
hopeless, bootless, groundless, luckless, artless, feckless, hapless, joyless, useless, penniless, childless, peerless and 310 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Setting the Scene: Dark and Dreary
Words that lend to the dark and dreary atmosphere of gothic literature.
dark, dreary, shroud, shrouded, veiled, skeleton, skeletal, dead, death, murky, gloomy, lugubrious and 274 more...
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GENERAL
acquiesce, adjunct, affable, alacrity, amiable, anodyne, anachronism, apex, aphorism, arbitrary, arch, archetype and 182 more...
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bianxie's list
cruel, asphyxiate, merciless, mercy, masochism, sadism, osculate, loquacious, vehement, pinnacle, rough, macabre and 77 more...
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good
unfuck, ostensibly, exacerbate, merciless, fluffy, digital breadcrumbs, cyberchondria, power nap, gaping maw, spectral, spectral, verbivores and 75 more...
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First Thought
merciless, enamoured, occluded, transposed, abysmal, palpitations, secluded, agony, transverse, itchings, detained, lament and 9 more...
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MEC1 Lesson 118
delve, instantly, purr, fur, merciless, stalker, pray, range, trip, inscrutable, rise, dweller and 20 more...
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fahye's Words
cadence, solipsism, aesthete, elegance, palindrome, sibilant, divigation, zenith, maelstrom, illogic, gestalt, tangle and 46 more...
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the thoughts of forgotten souls
mythical, dark, sheath, orc, golem, wraiths, malevolent, anubius, agony, merciless
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