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