pitilessness

Roget category 914a

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.3. Sympathetic affections
›› 6.3.3. Special sympathetic affections

#914a. Pitilessness

noun

pitilessness etc. adj. — inclemency — severity etc. 739 — malevolence etc. 907.

verb

have no mercy, shut the gates of mercy etc. 914 — give no quarter.

adjective

pitiless, merciless, ruthless, bowelless — unpitying, unmerciful, inclement — grim-faced, grim-visaged — incompassionate^†, uncompassionate — inexorable — harsh etc. 739 — unrelenting etc. 919.

The content on this page comes straight from Project Gutenberg Etext of Roget's Thesaurus No. Two, which consists of the acclaimed work by Peter Mark Roget augmented with more recent material. Some changes were made to the formatting for improved readability.

Bold numbers signify related Roget categories. A dagger symbol (†) indicates archaic words and expressions no longer in common use.

debug info: 0.0017