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- pronunciation:
- ruth
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective)
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adjective |
| definition: |
without mercy or compassion; pitiless or cruel.
The new leader soon proved to be a ruthless tyrant.The captors used ruthless means to extract confessions.- synonyms:
- brutal, cold-blooded, cruel, cutthroat, heartless, merciless, pitiless, remorseless, unsparing
- similar words:
- atrocious, barbarous, beastly, bloodthirsty, brute, brutish, hardhearted, inhuman, relentless, sanguinary, truculent, unfeeling, vicious
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| related words: |
abusive, barbarian, bestial, hard, obdurate, oppressive, savage, stiff, stony |
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| derivations: |
ruthlessly (adv.), ruthlessness (n.) |
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