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English
Etymology
From Middle English reuþeles; equivalent to ruth + -less.
Pronunciation
Adjective
ruthless (comparative more ruthless, superlative most ruthless)
- Without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless.
- Antonym: ruthful
Related terms
Translations
without pity or compassion
- Arabic: قَاسٍ (qāsin)
- Armenian: անգութ (hy) (angutʻ), դաժան (hy) (dažan)
- Basque: errukigabe
- Belarusian: бязлі́тасны (bjazlítasny), бязжа́ласлівы (bjazžálaslivy)
- Bulgarian: безми́лостен (bg) (bezmílosten), безскру́пулен (bg) (bezskrúpulen)
- Catalan: despietat (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 殘忍／残忍 (zh) (cánrěn), 無情／无情 (zh) (wúqíng)
- Czech: bezohledný (cs), nemilosrdný (cs)
- Danish: skånselløs, skånselsløs
- Dutch: onbarmhartig (nl), meedogenloos (nl)
- Esperanto: senkompata
- Finnish: armoton (fi), säälimätön (fi)
- French: impitoyable (fr)
- Galician: desapiadado (gl)
- Georgian: შეუბრალებელი (šeubralebeli), ულმობელი (ulmobeli)
- German: unbarmherzig (de), ruchlos (de)
- Greek: αδίστακτος (el) (adístaktos)
- Ancient: ἄνοικτος (ánoiktos)
- Hungarian: könyörtelen (hu)
- Italian: spietato (it), crudele (it)
- Japanese: 無情な (ja) (むじょうな, mujō na), 残酷な (ja) (ざんこくな, zankoku na), 無慈悲な (ja) (むじひな, mujihi na)
- Khmer: គ្មានមេត្តា (kmiən meittaa)
- Korean: 무자비하다 (mujabihada)
- Latin: crūdēlis
- Macedonian: немилосрден (nemilosrden), безмилосен (bezmilosen)
- Maori: ngākau whakawiri
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: харгис хэрцгий (xargis xercgii)
- Roman: nȅmilosrdan (sh)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hensynsløs, ubarmhjertig (no)
- Occitan: despietadós (oc)
- Ottoman Turkish: دینسز (dinsiz)
- Polish: bezwzględny (pl), bezpardonowy (pl)
- Portuguese: impiedoso
- Romanian: nemilos (ro)
- Russian: безжа́лостный (ru) (bezžálostnyj), беспоща́дный (ru) (bespoščádnyj), жесто́кий (ru) (žestókij)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: не̏милосрдан
- Shor: ачынмас
- Slovak: bezohľadný, nemilosrdný
- Slovene: neusmiljen, trdosrčen
- Spanish: despiadado (es)
- Swedish: hänsynslös (sv), skoningslös (sv), obarmhärtig (sv)
- Thai: เหี้ยม (th) (hîiam)
- Turkish: acımasız (tr)
- Ukrainian: безжа́лісний (uk) (bezžálisnyj), безжа́льний (uk) (bezžálʹnyj), безпоща́дний (uk) (bezpoščádnyj)
- Vietnamese: tàn nhẫn (vi)
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