REMORSELESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does remorseless mean? 

• REMORSELESS (adjective)
  The adjective REMORSELESS has 1 sense:

1. without mercy or pity

  Familiarity information: REMORSELESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMORSELESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without mercy or pity

Synonyms:

pitiless; remorseless; ruthless; unpitying

Context example:

a monster of remorseless cruelty

Similar:

merciless; unmerciful (having or showing no mercy)

 Context examples 

I denounced myself as a remorseless brute and a ruthless beast.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I implored the colonel to let me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my cries.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When he had travelled a few minutes it would begin a remorseless thump, thump, thump, and then leap up and away in a painful flutter of beats that choked him and made him go faint and dizzy.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I determined not to return to-night to the gloom-haunted rooms, but to sleep here, where, of old, ladies had sat and sung and lived sweet lives whilst their gentle breasts were sad for their menfolk away in the midst of remorseless wars.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This time at least modern weapons prevailed and the great creature, twelve feet from head to foot—phororachus its name, according to our panting but exultant Professor—went down before Lord Roxton's rifle in a flurry of waving feathers and kicking limbs, with two remorseless yellow eyes glaring up from the midst of it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We should have been at her mercy, if she had had any; but she was a remorseless woman, and had none.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That purpose is remorseless.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Miserable little propitiators of a remorseless Idol, how abject we were to him!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)