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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | viciously competitive |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, brutal, competitive, cutthroat, every person for themselves, fierce, merciless, ruthless, unmerciful, vicious, voracious, without mercy |
| Main Entry: | grim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance |
| Synonyms: | austere, barbarous, bleak, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, cruel, crusty, dogged, ferocious, fierce, forbidding, foreboding, formidable, frightful, funereal, ghastly, gloomy, glowering, glum, grisly, grouchy, gruesome, grumpy*, harsh, hideous, horrid, implacable, inexorable, intractable, merciless, morose, ominous, relentless, resolute, ruthless, scowling, severe, shocking, sinister, somber, sour, splenetic, stern, stubborn, sulky, sullen, surly, terrible, truculent, unrelenting, unyielding |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, happy, hopeful, joyful, sunny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | harsh |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, abusive |
| Synonyms: | austere, bitter, brutal, comfortless, cruel, cussed, discourteous, dour, grim, gruff, hairy*, hard, hard-boiled, hard-nosed, hard-shell, mean, pitiless, punitive, relentless, rude, ruthless, severe, sharp, stern, stringent, tough, uncivil, unfeeling, ungracious, unkind, unpleasant, unrelenting, wicked |
| Antonyms: | courteous, kind, nice, polite |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | heartless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without feeling; cold |
| Synonyms: | brutal, callous, cold fish, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, cruel, hard, hard as nails, hard-boiled, hard-hearted, harsh, inhuman, insensitive, merciless, obdurate, pitiless, ruthless, savage, thick-skinned, uncaring, uncompassionate, unemotional, unfeeling, unkind, unsympathetic |
| Antonyms: | caring, compassionate, considerate, feeling, kind, nice, sympathetic, warmhearted |
| Main Entry: | implacable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | merciless, cruel |
| Synonyms: | grim, inexorable, inflexible, intractable, ironfisted, mortal, pitiless, rancorous, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, unappeasable, unbending, uncompromising, unflinching, unforgiving, unrelenting, unyielding, vindictive |
| Notes: | placable is 'of a tolerant nature' - the opposite of implacable |
| Antonyms: | kind, merciful, nice, placable |
| Main Entry: | inclement |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cruel, merciless |
| Synonyms: | callous, draconian, harsh, intemperate, pitiless, rigorous, ruthless, savage, severe, tyrannical, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful |
| Antonyms: | kind, merciful, nice, sympathetic |
| Main Entry: | indomitable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | steadfast, unyielding |
| Synonyms: | dogged, impassable, impregnable, insuperable, insurmountable, invincible, invulnerable, obstinate, pertinacious, resolute, ruthless, staunch, stubborn, unassailable, unbeatable, unconquerable, undefeatable, unflinching, willful |
| Antonyms: | beatable, conquerable, unstable, weak, yielding |
| Main Entry: | inhuman/inhumane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | animal, savage |
| Synonyms: | barbaric, barbarous, bestial, brutal, cannibalistic, cold-blooded, cruel, devilish, diabolical, fell, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, grim, hateful, heartless, implacable, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, truculent, uncompassionate, unfeeling, unkind, unrelenting, unsympathetic, vicious |
| Antonyms: | animate, human/humane, sensate |
| Main Entry: | merciless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mean, heartless |
| Synonyms: | barbarous, callous, compassionless, cruel, cutthroat, dog-eat-dog, fierce, gratuitous, grim, hard, hardhearted, harsh, hatchet job, having a killer instinct, implacable, inexorable, inhumane, iron-fisted, mean machine, mortal, pitiless, relentless, ruthless, severe, unappeasable, uncalled-for, unfeeling, unflinching, unforgiving, unmerciful, unpitying, unrelenting, unsparing, unsympathetic, unyielding, wanton |
| Antonyms: | giving, kind, merciful, nice, sparing, sympathetic |
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