merciless

English

Etymology

From Middle English merciles, mercyles, equivalent to mercy +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɜːsɪləs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɝsɪləs/

Adjective

merciless (comparative more merciless, superlative most merciless)

1. Showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless.
   • 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:

     The sun is merciless today, so please take care of yourself.

Synonyms

• unmerciful
• cruel
• pitiless
• ruthless

Derived terms

• mercilessly
• mercilessness

Translations

showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless

• Bulgarian: безмилостен (bg) (bezmilosten)
• Catalan: despietat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殘忍 / 残忍 (zh) (cánrěn), 無情 / 无情 (zh) (wúqíng)

• Czech: nemilosrdný (cs) m
• Danish: nådesløs
• Dutch: genadeloos (nl)
• Finnish: armoton (fi), säälimätön (fi)
• French: impitoyable (fr)
• German: gnadenlos (de)
• Greek: αλύπητος (el) (alýpitos)

  Ancient: ἀνελεήμων (aneleḗmōn), ἄσπλαγχνος (ásplankhnos)

• Hindi: निर्दय (hi) (nirday), निष्ठुर (hi) (niṣṭhur)
• Hungarian: kegyetlen (hu), könyörtelen (hu)
• Indonesian: sadis (id)
• Irish: éadrócaireach, neamhthrócaireach
• Italian: spietato (it), crudele (it)
• Japanese: 無慈悲 (ja) (mujihi), 容赦ない (yōsha nai)
• Korean: 무자비하다 (mujabihada)
• Latin: immisericors
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nådeløs

  Nynorsk: nådelaus

• Ottoman Turkish: دینسز (dinsiz)
• Polish: bezlitosny (pl) m, niemiłosierny (pl) m, bezpardonowy (pl), bezwzględny (pl)
• Portuguese: impiedoso, imisericordioso m
• Russian: беспоща́дный (ru) (bespoščádnyj), безжа́лостный (ru) (bezžálostnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: mì-chneasta
• Spanish: despiadado (es), inmisericorde (es)
• Swedish: skoningslös (sv), obarmhärtig (sv)
• Tagalog: walang awa
• Turkish: acımasız (tr)
• Ukrainian: безжалісний (uk) (bezžalisnyj), безжальний (uk) (bezžalʹnyj), безпощадний (uk) (bezpoščadnyj), немилосе́рдний (nemylosérdnyj)

Anagrams

• crimeless