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Unpitying

Definition: Unpitying

Unpitying

Adjective

1. Without mercy or pity; "an act of ruthless ferocity"; "a monster of remorseless cruelty".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unpitying" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)


Synonyms: Unpitying

Synonyms: pitiless (adj), remorseless (adj), ruthless (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unpitying

ContextSynonyms 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.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: Unpitying

Language Translations for "unpitying"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

суров (austere, coarse, crude, dour, draconian, flinty, green, grim, hard, harsh, iron, iron-bound, raw, rigorous, rough, rude, rugged, severe, smart, stiff, uncharitable, uncooked, uncouth, unseasoned), коравосърдечен (callous, flinthearted, hardhearted, inhumane, obdurate, stony, stony hearted, unfeeling, unforgiving, unsympathetic), безмилостен (cutthroat, flinty, hard, merciless, relentless, remorseless, unmerciful, unsparing). (various references)

   

French

  

impitoyable (unfeeling, unmerciful). (various references)

   

German

  

mitleidslos. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szánalom nélküli, szánalmat nem ismerő, részvét nélküli, könyörület nélküli, irgalmatlan (merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless). (various references)

   

Italian

  

spietato (cruel, grim, hard, merciless, pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, unmerciful, unremorseful). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ityingunpay

   

Turkish

  

amansız (close, deadly, implacable, inexorable, merciless, ruthless, stern, unappeasable, without remorse). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không thương xót; t n nhẫn. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unpitying

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-i-i-n-n-p-t-u-y"

-2 letters: pitying, punting, uniting, untying.

-3 letters: pignut, pining, pinyin, tining, tuning, tyning, typing.

-4 letters: ginny, gunny, input, piing, pinny, punny, punty, tinny, tunny, tying, unity, unpin.

-5 letters: inti, ping, pint, piny, pity, pung, punt, puny, pyin, ting, tiny, tipi, tung, tyin, unit.

 Words containing the letters "g-i-i-n-n-p-t-u-y"
 

+5 letters: unappetizingly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unpitying


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 70 69 74 79 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    .--.    ..    -    -.--.    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01110000 01101001 01110100 01111001 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#112 &#105 &#116 &#121 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0070 0069 0074 0079 0069 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

558082758691758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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