ruthless

Meaning of ruthless

adjective
  1. having or showing no pity or compassion for others.
    a ruthless manipulator

Middle English: from ruth + -less.

Information about ruthless

  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of ruthless

ruth-less

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • ruthless is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

ruthless synonyms

Meaning pitiless:

pitiless, remorseless, unpitying

Meaning showing no mercy:

merciless

Meaning wilfully causing pain or suffering to others, or feeling no concern about it:

cruel

Meaning displaying a complete lack of feeling or consideration:

heartless

Meaning not showing sympathy or affection; strict:

hard

Meaning not having or showing feeling or sympathy:

stony

Meaning cruel or severe:

harsh

Meaning showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others:

callous

Meaning (of punishment of a person) strict or harsh:

severe

Meaning cruel or harsh; showing no mercy:

unmerciful

Meaning not yielding in strength, severity, or determination:

unrelenting

Meaning merciless; severe:

unsparing

Meaning not willing to forgive or excuse people's faults or wrongdoings:

unforgiving

Meaning unsympathetic, harsh, or callous:

unfeeling

Meaning not displaying sympathy or concern for others:

uncaring

Meaning not feeling, showing, or expressing sympathy:

unsympathetic

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

uncharitable

Meaning harsh or inflexible:

relentless

Meaning reserved, formal, or strict in one's behaviour or attitudes; austere and inflexible:

unbending

Meaning unwilling to change or compromise:

inflexible

Meaning (of a person) impossible to persuade; unrelenting:

inexorable

Meaning unable to be appeased or placated:

implacable

Meaning never relaxing or slackening; incessant:

unremitting

Meaning resembling steel in colour, brightness, or strength:

steely

Meaning savagely violent:

brutal

Meaning lacking human qualities of compassion and mercy; cruel and barbaric:

inhuman

Meaning without compassion for misery or suffering; cruel:

inhumane

Meaning extremely brutal:

barbarous

Meaning savagely cruel:

barbaric

Meaning cruel and vicious; aggressively hostile:

savage

Meaning having or showing a desire to kill and maim:

bloodthirsty

Meaning deriving pleasure from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others:

sadistic

Meaning deliberately cruel or violent:

vicious

Meaning having or displaying an intense or ferocious aggressiveness:

fierce

Meaning savagely fierce, cruel, or violent:

ferocious

Meaning (of the weather) unpleasantly cold or wet:

inclement

Meaning past of fall:

fell

ruthless antonyms

Meaning showing or exercising mercy:

merciful

Meaning feeling or showing sympathy and concern for others:

compassionate

Meaning having or showing a mild, kind, or tender temperament or character:

gentle

Anagrams of ruthless

hurtless, hustlers

Words that rhyme with ruthless

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