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Definition: Pitiless |
PitilessAdjective1. Without mercy or pity; "an act of ruthless ferocity"; "a monster of remorseless cruelty". 2. Deficient in humane and kindly feelings. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pitiless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: PitilessSynonyms: remorseless (adj), ruthless (adj), unkind (adj), unpitying (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pitilessness | Adjective: pitiless, merciless, ruthless, bowelless; unpitying, unmerciful, inclement; grim-faced, grim-visaged; incompassionate, uncompassionate; inexorable; harsh; unrelenting. |
Revenge | Adjective: revengeful, vengeful; vindictive, rancorous; pitiless; a; ruthless, rigorous, avenging. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pitiless |
| English words defined with "pitiless": Dispiteous ♦ Hard-hearted ♦ Imppiteous ♦ Stone-hearted ♦ Unpitied, Unpitious. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pitiless": Hexameter Verse. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The meanest one is Rooster Cogburn, a pitiless man, double tough, fear don't enter into his thinking (True Grit; writing credit: Charles Portis; Marguerite Roberts) | |
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Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Joseph Joubert | Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Her creditors were more pitiless than ever |
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| "Pitiless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pitiless" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 38 | 55,818 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "pitiless": be pitiless ♦ pitiless a ♦ pitiless unfeeling unkind. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "pitiless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mizor (atrocious, cruel, despiteful, draconian, draconic, ferocious, fiendish, inhuman, outrageous, savage), i pamëshirshëm (dispiteous, flint hearted, grim, merciless, relentless, remorseless, savage, unmerciful, unrelenting). (various references) | |
Arabic | قاس (austere, callous, concrete, cruel, cutthroat, drastic, firm, gauge, hard, hard-hearted, harsh, inclement, inflexible, measure, merciless, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rough, rugged, ruthless, scale, severe, solid, standardize, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, tape, tough, try on, unfeeling, unkind, unyielding), عديم الرحمة (heartless, merciless, remorseless, unmerciful). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | безсърдечен (cold-hearted, heartless), безжалостен (heartless, inexorable, inexpiable, merciless, remorseless, ruthless, savage). (various references) | |
Chinese | 無情 (ruthless). (various references) | |
Czech | nemilosrdný (hard-hearted, heartless, remorseless, ruthless, savage, ungracious, unmerciful, unsparing), nelítostný (relentless, remorseless, savage, unmerciful), bezcitný (cold-hearted, cruel, hard-hearted, heartless, insusceptible, remorseless, ruthless, stony, stonyhearted, unfeeling, unkind), bez jádra. (various references) | |
Finnish | säälimätön (merciless, relentless, ruthless, uncharitable, unmerciful), armoton (merciless, ruthless, uncharitable, unmerciful). (various references) | |
French | sans pitié, impitoyablement. (various references) | |
German | unbarmherzig (cruel, inclement, iron, merciless, mercilessly, pitilessly, relentlessly, remorseless, ruthless, uncharitable, unmerciful, unrelenting, unremorseful), erbarmungslos (grim, inexorable, inexorably, merciless, relentless, unmerciful, without remorse), schonungslos (blunt, merciless, ruthless, savage, savagely, scathing, scathingly, uncharitable, unrelenting, unsparing, unsparingly). (various references) | |
Greek | άσπλαχνοσ (cruel, merciless, remorseless, unmerciful), ανηλεήσ (merciless, ruthless, ruthness), ανελέητοσ (unforgiving). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חסר רחמים (merciless, relentless, ruthless, stony hearted). (various references) | |
Hungarian | irgalmatlan (merciless, relentless, remorseless, unpitying), könyörtelen (cruel, fell, inhuman, merciless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, steely, steely glance, to be as hard as nails, unfeeling, unmerciful). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bengis (cruel, currish, curt, ruthless, violent). (various references) | |
Italian | spietato (cruel, grim, hard, merciless, remorseless, ruthless, unmerciful, unpitying, unremorseful). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 情知らず (coldhearted), 情け知らず (coldhearted). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | なさけしらず (coldhearted). (various references) | |
Manx | neuerreeishagh (incompassionate), gyn chymmey (barbarous). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | itilesspay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem piedade (relentless, remorseless, unfeeling, unmerciful), implacável (bitter, conflicting, irreconcilable, merciless, relentless, ruthless, unmerciful, unrelenting, unsparing), impiedoso (flinty, grim, heartless, merciless, ruthless, unrelenting, unsparing), cruel (atrocious, barbaric, bitter, bloody, boarish, candle-wick, cruel, dark, fell, felon, fierce, grim, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, iron, merciless, ruffian, ruthless, scathing, severe, shrewish, squint-eyed, tigerish, tigrish, truculent, uncharitable, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful, wicked, wolfish). (various references) | |
Romanian | nemilos (cruel, fell, hard, harsh, merciless, ruthless, unkind), necruţãtor (grim, inexpiable, relentless, ruthless), neîndurãtor (grim, harsh, inclement, irremovable, merciless, relentless, relentlessly, ruthless, unfeeling), fãrã milã (dispiteous, pitilessly, ruthless, ruthlessly, unrelenting, without remorse). (various references) | |
Russian | безжалостный (dispiteous, hard-faced, heartless, inexorable, merciless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, unmerciful, unrelenting). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nemilosrdan (cruel, dispiteous, graceless, hardhearted, merciless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, uncharitable, unmerciful, wanton). (various references) | |
Spanish | despiadado (cutthroat, dispiteous, flint hearted, inhumane, merciless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, unkind, unmerciful, unremorseful, unsparing). (various references) | |
Swedish | skoningslös (merciless, unsparing), obarmhärtig (dispiteous, merciless, remorseless, ruthless, uncharitable, unmerciful). (various references) | |
Turkish | taş yürekli, merhametsiz (cruel, draconic, fell, inexorable, inhuman, merciless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, uncharitable, unfeeling, unmerciful, unpitied), acımasız (atrocious, brutal, coldhearted, cruel, cutthroat, dead, despot, ferocious, fiendish, flinty, grim, hard-hearted, harsh, implacable, inclement, inexorable, inhumane, merciless, outrageous, relentless, ruthless, slashing, stern, truculent, tyrannic, tyrannical, tyrannous, unmerciful, unpitied, unrelenting, without remorse). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | безжалісний (cold blooded, compassless, devoid of pity, dispiteous, grim, inexorable, merciless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, stony, unmerciful, unrelenting). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | t n nhẫn (cruelly, dispiteous, grim, harsh, merciless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, unfeeling), nhẫn tâm (cold-hearted, coldly, dispiteous, grim, hard-hearted, iron-fisted, iron-hearted, merciless, ruthless, stonily, unfeeling), không thương xót (dispiteous, hard, unmerciful). (various references) | |
Welsh | annhosturiol (ruthless, unmerciful). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pitiless": pitilessly, pitilessness, pitilessnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Pitiless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: periless, Petilius, petless, Pitallis, pitiness, Pittalis, potless. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pitiless" (pronounced pi"tēlus) |
| 4 | -ē l u s | penniless. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, perilous, pilotless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-l-p-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: pistils, stipels, tipless. | |
-2 letters: islets, istles, pistes, pistil, pities, plisse, sliest, slipes, speils, spelts, spiels, spiles, spites, splits, stiles, stipel, stipes. | |
-3 letters: isles, islet, issei, istle, lisps, lists, pelts, pests, pilei, piles, pilis, piste, plies, septs, silts, sipes, sites, slept, slipe, slips, slipt, slits, speil, spelt, spiel, spies, spile, spilt, spite, spits, split. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-l-p-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: limpsiest, pisolites, slippiest. | |
+2 letters: colpitises, pilosities, pitilessly, pyelitises, sepiolites, slimpsiest, specialist, spindliest, spiritless. | |
+3 letters: capitalises, fieldstrips, hospitalise, palmistries, peristalsis, philistines, pitifulness, plasticines, plasticizes, plebiscites, polemicists, politicises, priestliest, septillions, slipperiest, specialists, specialties. | |
+4 letters: dissipatedly, epiglottises, epistolaries, explicitness, hospitalised, hospitalises, hospitalizes, imperialists, implicitness, impoliteness, lickspittles, listenership, multispecies, philatelists, pitiableness, pitilessness, plasticities, plasticizers, pleinairists, priestliness, silverpoints, simplicities, spatialities, specialistic, specialities, spiritlessly, sprightliest, stepfamilies. | |
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