Meaning & use
remorseless
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Feeling or showing no regret or guilt for wrongdoing; relentless and unyielding.
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The remorseless criminal showed no sympathy for his victims.
The team faced a remorseless schedule of games with barely a day's rest.
A note on using this word
Combines remorse with the negating suffix -less, and extends easily from moral callousness to describing anything unyielding, like weather or a workload.
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Words with an opposite meaning
remorsefulrepentant
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