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mer·ci·less
 merciless
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- pronunciation:
- muhr
sih
lihs
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition: |
showing no kindness or compassion; without mercy; cruel.
The merciless captors tortured the prisoners of war.He desperately begged his grandfather for help, but the old man was merciless.The conquerors were merciless toward the people whose lands they had seized.- synonyms:
- cruel, pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, unmerciful
- antonyms:
- compassionate, merciful
- similar words:
- brutal, cold-blooded, evil, hardhearted, heartless, inhuman, inhumane, relentless, truculent, unsparing, wanton
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| related words: |
bestial, brute, obdurate, oppressive, savage, stiff, stony, vicious |
adverb + (adj.)merciless
absolutely
(adj.)merciless
+ noun
attack,
bombardment,
brute,
competition,
desert,
finger,
glare,
grip,
heat,
horror,
killer,
punishment,
rain,
revenge,
rival,
savage,
sea,
sky,
sun,
teasing,
truth,
wind
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| derivations: |
mercilessly (adv.), mercilessness (n.) |
The word merciless
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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