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remorseless

adjectiveC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,008 of 15,258neutral

Remorseless means feeling no regret, or never letting up. A remorseless rain.

The two senses are quite different, since one is about a person and the other about a process. Remorseless of weather or of pressure means unrelenting rather than cruel.

Definitions of remorseless

  1. 1adjectiveremorselessFeeling no regret, or never letting up.C1

    “The remorseless noise from the road went on all night.”

remorseless is a quality.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *(s)merd-

  2. Latin

    remordeō — to torment, vex

  3. Medieval Latin

    remorsus

  4. Old French

    remors

  5. Middle English

    remors

  6. English

    remorse

  7. English, today

    remorseless

From remorse + -less. remorse First attested circa 14th century as Middle English remors, from Old French remors, from Medieval Latin remorsus, from Latin remordeō (“to torment, vex”) literally “to bite back”, from re + mordeō. More at remord.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

remorseless in the wild

  • The writing has been described as vivid and painterly in its attention to landscape, and remorseless in its critical dissection of social conventions.

    The Twyborn Affair

  • During his short term on the bench, Bodenheimer set the Jefferson Parish record for the longest prison sentence, 881 years for a remorseless armed robber.

    Ronald Bodenheimer

  • Phillips' crime was described as "brutal" and "remorseless" by many local and national news organizations, which extensively covered her trial, subsequent escape from prison, and recapture.

    Clara Phillips

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the remors family

remorse

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