merciless
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Synonyms & Antonyms for merciless
Synonyms
affectless, callous, case-hardened, cold-blooded, compassionless, desensitized, hard, hard-boiled, hard-hearted, heartless, indurate, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, insensitive, ironhearted, obdurate, pachydermatous, pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, slash-and-burn, soulless, stony (also stoney), stonyhearted, take-no-prisoners, thick-skinned, uncharitable, unfeeling, unmerciful, unsparing, unsympathetic
Antonyms
charitable, compassionate, humane, kindhearted, kindly, merciful, sensitive, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, warm, warmhearted
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There's the virtuoso wonderkid Kylian Mbappe, merciless hitman Edinson Cavani and - for now - Neymar. — SI.com, "6 Things You May Have Missed From Around Europe This Weekend," 2 Sep. 2019 The Bombers have now won 15 straight against the Birds, and head into Wednesday’s game with a merciless 16-2 record against their division foes. — Bradford William Davis, courant.com, "Gio Urshela is here to challenge DJ LeMahieu for the batting title," 14 Aug. 2019 Such is the case with Clare in The Nightingale: During a scene in which Sam Claflin’s merciless Lieutenant Hawkins brutally rapes her, the camera is trained on the expression on her face. — Suyin Haynes, Time, "How Much Violence Against Women Is Too Much to Depict Onscreen? The Nightingale Offers One Answer," 2 Aug. 2019 In the trailer released Tuesday, the seamen appear to fight against the merciless forces of nature while also growing weary of one another. — Zoya Ansari And Brian Ries, CNN, "'The Lighthouse' trailer shows Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson's creepy descent into madness," 30 July 2019 Going after him — the merciless Khmer guards make clear — is not an option. — Kenneth Turan, chicagotribune.com, "‘Funan’ movie review: A family seeks to reunite amid terror of the Khmer Rouge in beautifully animated film," 27 June 2019 The political realities of our country are merciless. — Naureen Khan, The Atlantic, "The Tony-Nominated Play That Savages the U.S. Constitution," 8 June 2019 This is Texas east of the Pecos, a land of cowpokes and unending fields of cotton, a crop that loves the merciless sun of its semiarid climate. — Mary Ann Anderson, Twin Cities, "Lubbock is smack in middle of nowhere — and everywhere," 20 July 2019 This is a land of caprock, cowpokes and unending fields of cotton, a crop that loves the merciless sun of its semiarid climate. — Mary Ann Anderson, chicagotribune.com, "Lots to love in Lubbock, a West Texas town with a cowboy past and a bright future," 18 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'merciless.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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