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pitiless

adjective

  1. merciless/showing no pity, without pity/compassion
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈpɪtɪləs/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English piteeles, pyteles; equivalent to pity + -less.

  1. Having, or showing, no pity; merciless, ruthless.

    O God! can I not save / One from the pitiless wave? / Is all that we see or seem / But a dream within a dream?

    Her clothes were torn to mere shreds and tatters, and through the pitiful rags her once white and tender skin showed raw and bleeding from contact with the thousand pitiless thorns and brambles through which she had been dragged.

  2. Having no kind feelings; unkind.