English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English reuþeles; equivalent to ruth + -less.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
ruthless (comparative more ruthless, superlative most ruthless)
- Without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless.
- Antonym: ruthful
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
without pity or compassion
- Armenian: անգութ (hy) (angutʿ), դաժան (hy) (dažan)
- Basque: errukigabe
- Bulgarian: безми́лостен (bg) (bezmílosten), безскрупулен (bg) (bezskrupulen)
- Catalan: despietat (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 殘忍 (zh), 残忍 (zh) (cánrěn), 無情 (zh), 无情 (zh) (wúqíng)
- Czech: bezohledný
- 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)
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- Italian: spietato (it), crudele (it)
- Japanese: 無情 (ja) (mujō), 残酷 (ja) (zankoku), 無慈悲 (ja) (mujihi)
- Khmer: គ្មានមេត្តា (kmean mettea)
- Latin: crūdēlis
- Macedonian: немилосрден (nemilosrden), безмилосен (bezmilosen)
- Maori: ngākau whakawiri
- Mongolian: харгис хэрцгий (khargis khertsgii)
- Norwegian: hensynsløs, ubarmhjertig (no)
- Polish: bezwzględny (pl)
- Portuguese: impiedoso
- Russian: безжа́лостный (ru) (bezžálostnyj), беспоща́дный (ru) (bespoščádnyj), жесто́кий (ru) (žestókij)
- Shor: ачынмас
- Spanish: despiadado (es)
- Swedish: hänsynslös (sv), skoningslös (sv), obarmhärtig (sv)
- Thai: เหี้ยม (th) (H̄eī̂ym)
- Turkish: acımasız (tr)
- Ukrainian: безжалісний (uk) (bezžalisnyj), безжальний (uk) (bezžalʹnyj), безпощадний (uk) (bezpoščadnyj)
- Vietnamese: tàn nhẫn (vi)
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