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bowelless

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Without pity.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

Examples

  • 1792, “Louis XIV,” The European Magazine and London Review, Volume 22, July 1792, p. 8, On his coffin at St. Denis, by the side of which stands the urn that contains his bowels, some one wrote, C’y gyst sans entrailles, Comme il etoit à Versailles. What little change in men by death is made! Louis the Great here bowelless is laid; Such as he play’d the tyrant’s lofty part At proud Versailles, and liv’d without a heart.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: pitiless, remorseless, spiteful, barbarous, bowelless, brutal, compassionless, cruel, demonic, despiteful, diabolic, diabolical, fell, incessive, inclement, inhuman, inhumane, malicious, merciless, nasty, nonhumane, rotten, ruthless, sadistic, savage, truculent, unbenevolent, unbenign, unkind, unmerciful, unpitiful, unpitying

Antonyms: none provided

2

adjective satellite

Meaning 2

ruthless in competition

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • cutthroat competition
  • bowelless readiness to take advantage

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cutthroat, fierce

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From bowel + -less.