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pitiless

adj
/ˈpɪtɪləs/

Etymology

From Middle English piteeles, pyteles; equivalent to pity + -less.

  1. inherited from piteeles

Definitions

  1. Having, or showing, no pity

    Having, or showing, no pity; merciless, ruthless.

    • O God! can I not save / One from the pitiless wave? / Is all that we see or seem / But a dream within a dream?
    • Her clothes were torn to mere shreds and tatters, and through the pitiful rags her once white and tender skin showed raw and bleeding from contact with the thousand pitiless thorns and brambles through which she had been dragged.

  2. Having no kind feelings

    Having no kind feelings; unkind.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at pitiless. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01pitiless02ruthless03unrelenting04relenting05relents06relent07cruel08merciless

A definitional loop anchored at pitiless. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at pitiless

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA