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# pitiless

«pitiless» in Mova's school dictionary: **showing no kindness or pity; cruel** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (pitiless, pitilessly)

### meaning for a pupil

Pitiless means showing no kindness or pity; cruel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitiless/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

describes a cruel king, witch or stepmother in a tale

### examples

- The king was a stern and pitiless ruler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitiless/#x1)
- The wicked witch was pitiless to the girl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitiless/#x2)
- The storm was pitiless. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitiless/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pitiless» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitiless/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.