From Middle English merciles, mercyles, equivalent to mercy + -less.
merciless (comparative more merciless, superlative most merciless)
- Showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless.
showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless
- Bulgarian: безмилостен (bg) (bezmilosten)
- Catalan: despietat (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 殘忍／残忍 (zh) (cánrěn), 無情／无情 (zh) (wúqíng)
- Czech: nemilosrdný (cs) m
- Danish: nådesløs
- Dutch: genadeloos (nl)
- Finnish: armoton (fi), säälimätön (fi)
- French: impitoyable (fr)
- German: gnadenlos (de)
- Greek: αλύπητος (el) (alýpitos)
- Ancient: ἀνελεήμων (aneleḗmōn), ἄσπλαγχνος (ásplankhnos)
- Hindi: निर्दय (hi) (nirday), निष्ठुर (hi) (niṣṭhur)
- Hungarian: kegyetlen (hu), könyörtelen (hu)
- Indonesian: sadis (id)
- Irish: éadrócaireach, neamhthrócaireach
- Italian: spietato (it), crudele (it)
- Japanese: 無慈悲 (ja) (mujihi), 容赦ない (yōsha nai)
- Korean: 무자비하다 (mujabihada)
- Latin: immisericors
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: nådeløs
- Nynorsk: nådelaus
- Ottoman Turkish: دینسز (dinsiz)
- Polish: bezlitosny (pl) m, niemiłosierny (pl) m, bezpardonowy (pl), bezwzględny (pl)
- Portuguese: impiedoso, imisericordioso m
- Russian: беспоща́дный (ru) (bespoščádnyj), безжа́лостный (ru) (bezžálostnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: mì-chneasta
- Spanish: despiadado (es), inmisericorde (es)
- Swedish: skoningslös (sv), obarmhärtig (sv)
- Tagalog: walang awa
- Turkish: acımasız (tr)
- Ukrainian: безжалісний (uk) (bezžalisnyj), безжальний (uk) (bezžalʹnyj), безпощадний (uk) (bezpoščadnyj), немилосе́рдний (nemylosérdnyj)
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