Remorseless
[rɪ'mɔːslɪs] or [rɪ'mɔrsləs]
Definition
(a.) Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unpitying, relentless, pitiless, uncompassionate, unrelenting, cruel, ruthless, merciless, unmerciful, savage, implacable.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Cruel, truculent, inexorable, ruthless, pitiless, unrelenting, merciless,implacable
ANT:Mild, humane, gentle, feeling, compunctious, lenient, remorseful,self-condemning, regretful, compassionate
Editor: Nell
Examples
- I denounced myself as a remorseless brute and a ruthless beast. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Above all, he was remorseless and unyielding in the pursuit of any object of desire, however lawless. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Miserable little propitiators of a remorseless Idol, how abject we were to him! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Then they rose again to the same remorseless suggestivity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- We should have been at her mercy, if she had had any; but she was a remorseless woman, and had none. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I implored the colonel to let me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my cries. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Our poor Emmy, who had never hated, never sneered all her life, was powerless in the hands of her remorseless little enemy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Editor: Nell