Usually means: Showing no compassion or forgiveness.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word Unmerciful:

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  1. unmerciful: Merriam-Webster
  2. unmerciful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unmerciful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. unmerciful: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unmerciful: Vocabulary.com
  6. Unmerciful, unmerciful: Wordnik
  7. unmerciful: Wiktionary
  8. unmerciful: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. unmerciful: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. unmerciful: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. unmerciful: Dictionary.com
  12. Unmerciful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. unmerciful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. unmerciful: Rhymezone
  15. Unmerciful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. unmerciful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. unmerciful: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. unmerciful: FreeDictionary.org
  19. unmerciful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. unmerciful: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. unmerciful: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  not showing mercy

Similar:
ruthless, pitiless, merciless, remorseless, unpitying, bowelless, mortal, fierce, cutthroat, tigerish, more...

Opposite:
merciful, compassionate, kind, sympathetic

Types:
merciless, merciful, mercifulness, more...

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Similar:
ruthless, pitiless, merciless, remorseless, unpitying, bowelless, mortal, fierce, cutthroat, tigerish, more...

Opposite:
merciful, compassionate, kind, sympathetic

Types:
merciless, merciful, mercifulness, more...



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