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What is the adjective for pitiless?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb pity which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

pitiful
  1. (now rare) Feeling pity; merciful.
  2. So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
  3. Of an amount or number: very small.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “She went on to pour out such a pitiful tale of things gone awry that Genji could bear it no longer.”
      “The laborers were paid only a pitiful amount for the work that they had accomplished.”
      “Here is a pitiful example of someone who cannot take responsibility for the consequences of her choices.”
pitiless
  1. having, or showing, no pity; merciless
  2. having no kindly feelings; unkind
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “That exquisite creature, so gentle and heavenly, was but a tyrant. She was the pitiless tyrant and torturer of my soul!”
      “His mother's pitiless remarks about his father's illness and incapacities, about which she felt no embarrassment in expressing in his presence, enraged Henry.”
      “The educated reader knew who was behind this pitiless satire on the decadence of the nobility.”
pitiable
  1. That deserves, evokes or can be given pity; pitiful.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The few lives that I had come across were miserable ones, pitiable creatures who had no hope left to live on with.”
      “The hotel room was decked out in crummy pitiable furniture.”
      “So these pathetic people hide their pitiable gutless selves in the cloak of anonymity.”
pitifull
  1. Archaic form of pitiful.
pitifuller
pitifullest
pitied
pitying
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