remorseless
/rɪˈmɔːsləs
/adjective
1Without regret or guilt: a remorseless killer...
- They are brutal and remorseless killers, undeserving of the legalism of international conventions, the U.S. government argues.
- Uncle Charlie is a killer, but not remorseless or unempathic.
- Their subject is the gregarious, loquacious, remorseless killer Benoit.
Synonyms
heartless, pitiless, merciless, ruthless, callous, cruel, hard-hearted, stony-hearted, with a heart of stone, cold-hearted, harsh, inhumane, unmerciful, unforgiving, unfeeling, unpitying, uncompromising, unkind
rare marble-hearted
2(Of something unpleasant) never ending or improving; relentless: remorseless poverty...
- Those farm overalls represented hard, long days in the harsh sun and remorseless winters.
- The remorseless rise in Irish petrol prices has been stemmed with the news in the government budget that excise duties on unleaded petrol has been reduced.
- Their modern counterparts face much worse, being hemmed in by the spread of suburbia, by motorways and the remorseless growth of traffic on ordinary roads.
Synonyms
relentless, unrelenting, unremitting, unabating, inexorable, implacable, unstoppable
Derivatives
remorselessly
/ adverb ...- New Labour continue to remorselessly carry on raising extra cash through taxation with no improvement in public services.
- It doesn't mean it's the best, it just means that it is relentlessly, remorselessly successful.
- He'd looked away, embarrassed, but was conscious that her own gaze continued remorselessly.
remorselessness
- It's performed with an escalating physical remorselessness that often ends in bloodied knuckles and ruptured piano strings.
- It might seem that the only thing these two news items have in common is that both are expressions of natural phenomena, the remorselessness of ageing and the unpredictability of the elements.
- From time to time there is an undercurrent of remorselessness, and it is obvious here.