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pitiless

English

Etymology

pity +? -less

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?p?t?l?s/

Adjective

pitiless (comparative more pitiless, superlative most pitiless)

  1. having, or showing, no pity; merciless, ruthless
  2. having no kindly feelings; unkind

Derived terms

  • pitilessly

Translations

Anagrams

  • spilites

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barbarous

English

Alternative forms

  • (obsolete) barbarouse

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?b??(?)b???s/

Adjective

barbarous (comparative more barbarous, superlative most barbarous)

  1. (said of language) Not classical or pure.
  2. uncivilized, uncultured
    • 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt
      I felt vaguely he was a sneak, and remained quite unmollified by advances on his side, which, in a boy's barbarous fashion, unless it suited me to be magnanimous, I haughtily ignored.
  3. Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.
    I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs
    By the known rules of antient libertie,
    When strait a barbarous noise environs me
    Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs - I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs, John Milton (1673)

Derived terms

  • barbarously
  • barbarousness

Related terms

  • barbarian
  • barbaric

Translations

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