Usually means: Lacking compassion or mercy; harsh.
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  1. pitiless: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pitiless: Merriam-Webster
  3. pitiless: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pitiless: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pitiless: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pitiless: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pitiless, pitiless: Wordnik
  8. pitiless: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pitiless: Wiktionary
  10. pitiless: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pitiless: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pitiless: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pitiless, pitiless: Dictionary.com
  14. pitiless: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pitiless: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. pitiless: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. pitiless: Rhymezone
  18. Pitiless: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. pitiless: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. pitiless: FreeDictionary.org
  21. pitiless: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. pitiless: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pitiless: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pitiless)

▸ adjective:  Having, or showing, no pity; merciless, ruthless.
▸ adjective:  Having no kind feelings; unkind.

Similar:
ruthless, merciless, inhumane, unkind, unmerciful, remorseless, unpitying, unpitiful, lack-pity, unpitous, more...

Opposite:
merciful, compassionate, kind, empathetic, considerate

Types:
merciless, ruthless, relentless, brutal, inhuman, savage, barbaric, more...

Phrases:
We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves, more...

Adjectives:
most, only, nigh, undaunted, same



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Similar:
ruthless, merciless, inhumane, unkind, unmerciful, remorseless, unpitying, unpitiful, lack-pity, unpitous, more...

Opposite:
merciful, compassionate, kind, empathetic, considerate

Types:
merciless, ruthless, relentless, brutal, inhuman, savage, barbaric, more...

Phrases:
We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves, more...

Adjectives:
most, only, nigh, undaunted, same



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