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remorseless Definition

re·morse·less (-lis)

adjective

without remorse; pitiless; merciless; ruthless; cruel

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remorseless Related Forms
re·morse′·lessly adverb re·morse′·less·ness noun
remorseless Synonyms

remorseless

modif.

  1. Lacking remorse as a quality of character

    shameless, hardened, obdurate, pitiless, merciless, harsh, cruel, barbarous, inhuman, unfeeling, indurate, tyrannical, hard-hearted, impenitent, unregenerate, uncontrite, unrepenting, ruthless, fierce, savage, unchristian, hard, intolerant, insensitive, greedy, avaricious, bloody, murderous, sanguinary.

    Antonyms sorry*, remorseful, apologetic.

  2. Relentless

    implacable, inexorable, unrelenting, unyielding, unforgiving, vindictive, avenging, stern, harsh, exacting, bitter, hard-bitten, sour, grim, adamant, inflexible, perverse, intractable, strict, rigorous, tough, forbidding, crazed; see also severe 1, 2.

    Antonyms yielding, forgiving, indulgent.

remorseless Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • march: So can CBS continue to defy gravity and the remorseless march of new media?
  • logic: Once again, the remorseless logic leads to the same conclusion.
  • pressure: Natural causes played their part, but so did the remorseless pressures of the open market.
  • advance: It is a relief to think that Essex's countryside is being recorded before it is finally crushed beneath the remorseless advance of London.
  • rise: If it was to halt the remorseless rise in the number of desertions, then there is little sign it had any demonstrable effect.
  • growth: No government in the world that I have identified has yet recognized the need to act to check that remorseless growth.

Modifying Another Word

  • equally: European empires, enslaving or exterminating new worlds elsewhere on our globe, had been equally remorseless.
remorseless Quotes

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

—Shaw, George Bernard