adj
Meaning 1
Without pity; pitiless.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Examples
- 1567, William Painter (translator), “Letters of the Emperour Traiane” in The Second Tome of the Palace of Pleasure, London: Nicholas England, [...] the Gods neuer shewed them selues so rigorous, as against a mercilesse and vnpitiful people.
- 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son and T. Cadell, Volume 3, Book 6, Chapter 1, p. 220, To be sure, I can’t say myself as she was overcomplaisant to make us welcome; but I hope I am above being so unpitiful as for to owe her a grudge for it now she’s so down in the mouth.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: remorseless, spiteful, unpitying, barbarous, bowelless, brutal, compassionless, cruel, demonic, despiteful, diabolic, diabolical, fell, incessive, inclement, inhuman, inhumane, malicious, merciless, nasty, nonhumane, pitiless, rotten, ruthless, sadistic, savage, truculent, unbenevolent, unbenign, unkind, unmerciful, unpitiful
Antonyms: none provided