Merciless

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Merciless \Mer"ci*less\, a.
     Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate
     beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless
     tyrant; merciless waves.
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           The foe is merciless, and will not pity. --Shak.
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     Syn: Cruel; unmerciful; remorseless; ruthless; pitiless;
          barbarous; savage.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Mer"ci*less*ly}, adv. --
          {Mer"ci*less*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  merciless
       adj : having or showing no mercy; "the merciless enemy"; "a
             merciless critic"; "gave him a merciless beating" [syn:
              {unmerciful}] [ant: {merciful}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  79 Moby Thesaurus words for "merciless":
     atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, bloody,
     bowelless, brutal, brutish, callous, cold, crude, cruel, cutthroat,
     dog-eat-dog, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, hard, harsh,
     heartless, illiberal, implacable, inclement, inconsiderate,
     indifferent, inexorable, inflexible, inhuman, inhumane,
     insensitive, kill-crazy, malevolent, malign, malignant, mortal,
     murderous, noncivilized, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, rough,
     rude, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, severe, tameless, thoughtless,
     tough, tyrannical, unappeasable, unbending, uncalled-for,
     uncharitable, uncivilized, uncompassionate, uncompassioned,
     unfeeling, unflinching, unforgiving, ungentle, ungracious,
     unmerciful, unmoved, unpitiful, unpitying, unrelenting,
     unremorseful, unsparing, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, untamed,
     unyielding, vicious, wanton, wild, without mercy