Definition of Remorseless

1. Adjective. Without mercy or pity. "A monster of remorseless cruelty"

Exact synonyms: Pitiless, Ruthless, Unpitying
Similar to: Merciless, Unmerciful
Derivative terms: Pitilessness, Ruthlessness, Ruthlessness

Definition of Remorseless

1. a. Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless.

Definition of Remorseless

1. Adjective. without remorse, mercy or pity ¹

2. Adjective. unyielding or relentless ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Remorseless

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Remorseless

remora
remoralize
remoralized
remoralizes
remoralizing
remoras
remord
remording
remorid
remorids
remorse
remorsed
remorseful
remorsefully
remorsefulness
remorseless
remorselessly
remorselessness
remorses
remort
remorted
remortgage
remortgaged
remortgager
remortgagers
remortgages
remortgaging
remorting
remorts
remote

Literary usage of Remorseless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"iln' application of brute masses, in rapid and remorseless blows, or, as he has himself phrased it, in " hammering continuously. ..."

2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"And now ihe bell—the bell She hail so often heard by night and day And listened to with soli'i pleasure, K'en ¡is a living voice— Rung its remorseless toll ..."

3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1860)
"... proud of his country, remorseless in battle yet prompt to forgive, and ever ready to jeopardize his own safety for the helpless and the oppressed; ..."

4. Life and Letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin by Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1907)
"She pressed them against America with remorseless stringency when she was stronger and America was weaker than they are now, and as she has reaped benefit ..."

5. History of the Second War Between the United States of America and Great by Charles Jared Ingersoll (1852)
"... talkative and confident, for some days moody, taciturn, and uneasy, betrayed, his detractors say, a blood-thirsty tyrant's remorseless guilt. ..."

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