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adjectivewithout remorse; merciless; pitiless; relentless. Origin of remorselessFirst recorded in 1585–95; remorse + -less SYNONYMS FOR remorselessruthless, unrelenting, implacable, inexorable, cruel. SEE SYNONYMS FOR remorseless ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM remorselessre·morse·less·ly, adverbre·morse·less·ness, nounWords nearby remorselessremontant, remontoir, remora, remorse, remorseful, remorseless, remortgage, remote, remote access, remote control, remotely Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for remorselessNow even his mountainous funeral is creeping into the remorseless past. Hunter S. Thompson Was Right About America: It’s Still Freaks vs. Fear|James Poulos|February 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST As the war kills the young, so the remorseless passage of time claims the old. David's Bookclub: Time Regained|David Frum|April 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST Browne demolishes these four claims, step by remorseless step, with studies and examples drawn from military experience. The Truth About Women in Combat|David Frum|March 1, 2013|DAILY BEAST The arithmetic of bombing is just that remorseless, leading to the novel's most famous joke: "People are trying to kill me." David's Bookclub: Catch-22|David Frum|December 29, 2012|DAILY BEAST
But tonight, Obama needs to be remorseless about not throwing out any bureaucratic bones. Obama Should Use Fighting Words in the 2012 State of the Union|Michael Tomasky|January 24, 2012|DAILY BEAST "Exactly," said Dr. Brighton-Pomfrey in a tone that defined his own position with remorseless clearness. Soul of a Bishop|H. G. Wells But this, like Landa's, was strangled almost at its birth by remorseless scholars. The American Egypt|Channing Arnold Each was thinking of friends in the settlement who had probably been slain by the remorseless savages. Hope and Have|Oliver Optic Some one has said that it is painful to read so minute and remorseless an exposure of one variety of human folly. And when he spoke there was a remorseless cruelty and selfishness in his low, even tones. Vanguards of the Plains|Margaret McCarter
British Dictionary definitions for remorseless
adjectivewithout compunction, pity, or compassion not abating in intensity; relentlessa remorseless wind Derived forms of remorselessremorselessly, adverbremorselessness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to remorselessavaricious, barbarous, bloody, callous, cruel, fierce, forbidding, greedy, grim, hard, hardened, harsh, impenitent, implacable, inexorable, inhuman, insensitive, intolerant, merciless, murderous |