The meaning of Merciless

adjective

Extremely brutal.

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Many early child-rearing practices were barbarous by modern standards

adjective

Able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

idiom

Having a body temperature that is not internally regulated

adjective

Denoting animals whose body temperature varies with that of the environment (e.g. fish); poikilothermic.

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Crocodiles are cold-blooded creatures, and they keep their temperature constant by basking in the s…

adjective

Without emotion or pity; deliberately cruel or callous.

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A cold-blooded murder

adjective

Not kind or sympathetic toward other people

adjective

Unable to be appeased or placated.

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He was an implacable enemy of ted's

adjective

Unable to be changed, satisfied, or stopped

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An implacable enemy

adjective

Impossible to stop or prevent.

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The seemingly inexorable march of new technology

adjective

Continuing without any possibility of being stopped

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Aging is an inexorable process.

adjective

Unwilling to change or compromise.

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Once she had made up her mind, she was inflexible

adjective

Lacking human qualities of compassion and mercy; cruel and barbaric.

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The inhuman treatment meted out to political prisoners

adjective

Extremely cruel; lacking in or not influenced by human feeling

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In those days war movies always portrayed the enemy as fanatical, even inhuman.

adjective

Without compassion for misery or suffering; cruel.

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Confining wild horses is inhumane

adjective

Reflecting a lack of pity or compassion

adjective

Cruel to people or animals in not caring about their suffering or about the conditions under which they live

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We have a responsibility to protect animals from inhumane treatment.

adjective

Showing no pity; cruel.

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A pitiless executioner

adjective

Without mercy or sympathy

adjective

Having or showing no pity

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A pitiless dictator

adjective

Unceasingly intense.

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The relentless heat of the desert

adjective

Without regret or guilt.

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A remorseless killer

adjective

Having or showing no pity or compassion for others.

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A ruthless manipulator

adjective

Without mercy or pity

adjective

Cruel, or determined to succeed without caring about others

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A ruthless ruler, to compete abroad requires ruthless cost-cutting at home.

adjective

(of a person's behaviour or attitude towards others) unkind; unsympathetic.

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This uncharitable remark possibly arose out of jealousy

adjective

Unkind and unfair

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The uncharitable explanation is that she's too afraid to ask.

adjective

Not willing to forgive or excuse people's faults or wrongdoings.

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He was always a proud and unforgiving man

adjective

Not willing to forgive people for things they do wrong

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My wife is unforgiving by nature., the unforgiving seas make search and rescue very difficult., sat…

adjective

Cruel or harsh; showing no mercy.

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Deceptively inflated incomes expose many couples to unmerciful taxes

adjective

Not feeling or showing pity.

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A flat, unpitying voice

adjective

Merciless; severe.

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He is unsparing in his criticism of the arms trade

adjective

Showing no kindness and no wish to hide the unpleasant truth

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The documentary went through all the graphic details of the operation in unsparing detail., last of…