Ruthless

English

Adjective

Ruthless (comparative more Ruthless, superlative most Ruthless)

1. Without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless.
   • 1725, Alexander Pope et al. (translators), Homer (author), The Odyssey of Homer, Volume I, Bernard Lintot, page 10:

     At length their rage the hoſtile Pow’rs reſtrain, / All but the ruthleſs Monarch of the Main.

Adverbs for Ruthless

atrociously; viciously; maliciously; vengefully; bitterly; cruelly; barbarously; brutally; ferociously; malevolently; venomously; outrageously; unbelievably; unimaginably; nefariously; wickedly; unutterably; strangely; unaccountably; inherently; terribly; shockingly; appallingly; astonishingly; horribly.

Thesaurus

Draconian, Tartarean, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bowelless, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, callous, cannibalistic, cruel, cruel-hearted, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, dog-eat-dog, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, flinty, hard, harsh, heartless, hellish, implacable, inclement, inexorable, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, kill-crazy, malign, malignant, mean, merciless, mortal, murderous, noncivilized, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, severe, sharkish, slavering, subhuman, tameless, tough, truculent, unappeasable, unchristian, uncivilized, uncompassionate, uncompassioned, unfeeling, unflinching, unforgiving, ungentle, unhuman, unmerciful, unpitiful, unpitying, unrelenting, unremorseful, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, untamed, unyielding, vicious, wild, without mercy, wolfish

Etymology

ruth

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈruːθləs/

Translations

without pity or compassion

Chinese: Mandarin: 殘忍 (cmn), 残忍 (cmn) (cánrěn), 無情 (cmn), 无情 (cmn) (wúqíng) Czech: bezohledný (cs) m. Danish: skånselløs, skånselsløs Dutch: onbarmhartig (nl), medogenloos (nl) Finnish: armoton (fi) French: impitoyable (fr) m. and f.

German: unbarmherzig (de), ruchlos (de) Macedonian: немилосрден (mk) (nemilósrden) m., безмилосен (mk) (bezmílosen) m. Norwegian: hensynsløs (no), ubarmhjertig (no) Polish: bezwzględny (pl) m. Russian: безжалостный (ru) (bezžálostnyj) Spanish: despiadado (es) Swedish: hänsynslös (sv), skoningslös (sv), obarmhärtig (sv) Turkish: acımasız (tr)

Anagrams

• hurtless, hustlers, sluthers