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pit·i·less
 pitiless
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- pronunciation:
- pI
ti
lihs
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition: |
having or demonstrating no pity or mercy; ruthless.
The pitiless bullies continued to beat the old man.Her family was pitiless toward her after she'd married an outsider and fallen into poverty.- synonyms:
- cold-hearted, hardhearted, heartless, merciless, ruthless, unmerciful, unsparing
- antonyms:
- charitable, merciful, soft-hearted, tender-hearted
- similar words:
- cold-blooded, cruel, harsh, implacable, inexorable, inflexible, inhuman, obdurate, relentless, remorseless, severe, stony, truculent, unkind, unrelenting
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| related words: |
barbarous, brutal, brute, oppressive |
adverb + (adj.)pitiless
totally
(adj.)pitiless
+ noun
authority,
betrayal,
century,
clarity,
demand,
enemy,
eye,
ferocity,
figure,
gaze,
glare,
hail,
honesty,
judge,
light,
passage,
rain,
snow,
sun,
vacuum,
will,
wind
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| derivations: |
pitilessly (adv.), pitilessness (n.) |
The word pitiless
contains the following part:
-less
Middle English
adjective-forming suffix
that means without
  More about this word part:
The suffix -less
attaches primarily to monosyllabic English nouns. However, -less
is a fully productive suffix, meaning it can be added to any noun to form legitimate new words.
Example words:
aimless, airless, baseless, blameless, bloodless, boneless, bodiless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, careless, cheerless, colorless, cordless, countless, dauntless, doubtless, endless, fatherless, fearless, feckless, flawless, formless, graceless, groundless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, jobless, joyless, listless, matchless, merciless, mindless, motionless, nameless, painless, peerless, penniless, pitiless, pointless, powerless, priceless, regardless, relentless, restless, selfless, sightless, soundless1, spotless, stainless, strapless, sunless, tasteless, thoughtless, tireless, useless, wireless, weightless, worthless
- synonyms:
- a-1, an-1
- antonyms:
- -ful1
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