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Definition of Ruthless
1. Adjective. Without mercy or pity. "A monster of remorseless cruelty"
Similar to: Merciless, Unmerciful
Derivative terms: Pitilessness, Ruthlessness, Ruthlessness
Definition of Ruthless
1. a. Having no ruth; cruel; pitiless.
Definition of Ruthless
1. Adjective. Without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ruthless
1. having no compassion [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruthless
Literary usage of Ruthless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"no And through the herd in ruthless scorn Л gain he winds his bugle-horn, He
cheers his furious hounds to go. In heaps the throttled victims fall ..."
2. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"... but we have no ally against our Friends, those ruthless Vandals. Once more to
one and all, " Friends, Romans, Countrymen, and Lovers. ..."
3. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1905)
"In 1858 he took up the system of giving public readings from his books with
ruthless severity, positively wearing himself to death by what he acknowledged ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Although ruthless and implacable, he proved himself the ablest Italian ruler of
the sixteenth century, and gave a permanent form to the government of ..."
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