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If I could sum up 'Shadow's Claim' in six words: cage fights with hot alpha males. Seriously, though, while the fights are the backdrop for Trehan and Bettina's love story, the main emphasis is on how Trehan - a pitiless master assassin - wages the ultimate battle to win her heart.
Kresley Cole

Meaning of "pitiless" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PITILESS

pitiless  [ˈpɪtɪlɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PITILESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pitiless is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PITILESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pitiless in the English dictionary

The definition of pitiless in the dictionary is having or showing little or no pity or mercy.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PITILESS


amaryllis
ˌæməˈrɪlɪs
Baylis
ˈbeɪlɪs
bodiless
ˈbɒdɪlɪs
cilice
ˈsɪlɪs
digitalis
ˌdɪdʒɪˈteɪlɪs
fontinalis
ˌfɒntɪˈneɪlɪs
gracilis
ˈɡræsɪlɪs
Halys
ˈheɪlɪs
joyless
ˈdʒɔɪlɪs
merciless
ˈmɜːsɪlɪs
moneyless
ˈmʌnɪlɪs
neurosyphilis
ˌnjʊərəʊˈsɪfɪlɪs
penniless
ˈpɛnɪlɪs
physalis
faɪˈseɪlɪs
propertyless
ˈprɒpətɪlɪs
puttyless
ˈpʌtɪlɪs
remediless
ˈremədɪlɪs
syphilis
ˈsɪfɪlɪs
Willis
ˈwɪlɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PITILESS

pithy
pitiable
pitiableness
pitiably
pitied
pitier
pities
pitiful
pitifully
pitifulness
pitilessly
pitilessness
Pitjantjara
Pitjantjatjara
pitman
pitmen
piton
Pitot tube
Pitot-static tube
pits

WORDS THAT END LIKE PITILESS

bless
bottomless
deviless
endless
fanciless
formless
homeless
hopeless
less
much less
nevertheless
regardless
seamless
stainless
timeless
topless
unless
useless
weariless
wireless

Synonyms and antonyms of pitiless in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PITILESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «pitiless» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of pitiless

Translation of «pitiless» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PITILESS

Find out the translation of pitiless to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pitiless from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pitiless» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无情
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

despiadada
570 millions of speakers

English

pitiless
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निष्ठुर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بلا شفقة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

безжалостный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

impiedosa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নিষ্করুণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sans pitié
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak bersalah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

mitleidlos
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

無慈悲な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

무자비한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pitiless
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không đáng thương
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இரக்கம் அற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निर्भय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

acımasız
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

spietato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bezlitosny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безжалісний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fără milă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανελέητο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

genadelose
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

obarmhärtig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pitiless
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pitiless

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PITILESS»

The term «pitiless» is regularly used and occupies the 98.159 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PITILESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pitiless

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4 QUOTES WITH «PITILESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pitiless.
1
Michael Ian Black
Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.
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Kresley Cole
If I could sum up 'Shadow's Claim' in six words: cage fights with hot alpha males. Seriously, though, while the fights are the backdrop for Trehan and Bettina's love story, the main emphasis is on how Trehan - a pitiless master assassin - wages the ultimate battle to win her heart.
3
Nancy Gibbs
The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience.
4
Graham Greene
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PITILESS»

Discover the use of pitiless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pitiless and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Pitiless Parodies and Other Outrageous Verse
Superb send-ups of classic poetry and the contemporary scene by the zany humorist, including some reprinted from Mad Magazine.
Frank Jacobs, 1994
2
A Pitiless Rain: The Battle of Williamsburg, 1862
This is the first full length book to treat the battle in all its strategic importance.
Earl C. Hastings, Jr., David S. Hastings, 1997
3
All that Gorgeous Pitiless Song: Poetry
Poetry. "Foust brings to life an immense range of experience and feeling.
Rebecca Foust, 2010
4
Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity: ...
In Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity, Denzey Lewis explores the rhetoric of "enslavement to fate" in the intellectual history of the 2nd century C.E., which she argues is differently articulated by ancient authors ...
Nicola F. Denzey, 2013
5
Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity: ...
In "Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity," Denzey Lewis explores the rhetoric of "enslavement to fate" in the intellectual history of the 2nd century C.E., which she argues is differently articulated by ancient ...
Nicola Denzey Lewis, 2013
6
The holy war made by King Shaddai upon Diabolus, to regain ...
Set him by, Jailer, and set Mr. Pitiless to the bar. — Mr. Pitiless thou art here indicted by the „. ., . . name of Pitiless (an intruder upon the Pmless 8et i° the bar, town of Mansoul,) for that thou didst most treacherously and wickedly shut up all ...
John Bunyan, George Burder, 1832
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The Holy War Made by Shaddai Upon Diabolus
for that thou didst most traitorously and wickedly Pitiless shut up all bowels of compassion, and wouldest not pleads suffer poor Mansoul to condole her own misery when she had apostatized from her rightful King, but didst evade and at all  ...
John Bunyan, 1901
8
The Complete Works of John Bunyan
Mr. Pitiless, thou art here in- 'licii'd by the name of Pitiless, (an intruder jpon the town of Mansoul,) for that thou didst m«t traitorously and wickedly shut up all [• met* of compassion, and wouldst not suffer |»«>r Mau*oul to condole. her own ...
John Bunyan, John Putnam Gulliver, 1872
9
A true relation of the holy war, made by king Shaddai upon ...
i •: □.• Clerk. Set him by, Gaoler, and set Mr. Pitiless to the bar. Mr. Pitiless, thou art here indicted by the name of Pitiless (an intruder upon the town of Man- soul) for that thou didst most treacherously and wickedly shut up all bowels of ...
John Bunyan, 1816
10
The Sacred Books of the East
a river springing from the deep ; but one way cannot be traversed, namely, the way of the pitiless Vayu l. 78. Pairithwo bavaiti pawtau yim azis paiti gau- stav0u, aspanghadho, viranghadho, vira^a, anama- rezdik6 ; hau did aevo apairithwo, ...
‎1895

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PITILESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pitiless is used in the context of the following news items.
1
How carbon reached the Earth from the stars
... lab - the frigid near-vacuum that lies between stars - because the absorption signatures of buckyballs are influenced by the pitiless conditions ... «Cosmos, Jul 15»
2
Here's why Koch-backed Scott Walker is an American dictator in …
... they are desirous of personal power; they are amoral, intimidating and bullying, faintly hedonistic, vengeful, pitiless, exploitive, manipulative, ... «Raw Story, Jul 15»
3
Tristan und Isolde review – radical reimagining marks new chapter …
Raw and pitiless … Georg Zeppenfeld, left, and Stephen Gould in Tristan und Isolde at the Bayreuth festival. Photograph: Enrico Nawrath/EPA. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
4
Kusal ton sets up consolation SL victory
With even their ace spinner dominated for the first time on tour, Pakistan's seamers were virtually fodder on what was now a pitiless surface. «ESPNcricinfo.com, Jul 15»
5
Private Group Buys Land Under Cross Memorial to Save Display …
... the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference… «Christian News Network, Jul 15»
6
A Poet's Apocalyptic Vision
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert. A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
7
Ominous rise in racism against refugees, Germany's top filmmaker …
"You people make me want to vomit. Get away from my page, you pitiless pack. You make me sick." ADVERTISING. Excerpts of the exchange, ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
8
Why Scott Walker Is An American Dictator In Waiting
... they are amoral, intimidating and bullying, faintly hedonistic, vengeful, pitiless, exploitive, manipulative, and dishonest; they will cheat to win; ... «AlterNet, Jul 15»
9
Medibank stock not in the pink of health as risks become reality
But with AMA chief Owler directly criticising the controversial clause, Medibank Private's negotiation tactics suddenly looked crude, if not pitiless ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
10
Richard II Gets Comedic Revamp at UK's Globe Theatre
Daily Mail critic Quentin Letts, thinks that perhaps Edward's portrayal of the “pitiless” Richard, is more Monty Python than Shakespeare. «CDA News, Jul 15»

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