Qualities

Synonyms for merciless

The synonym for merciless recorded in this bank is unmerciful, in the sense "having or showing no mercy". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 5, Summit · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for merciless

unmercifuladjective, in the sense "having or showing no mercy"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for merciless.

The senseadjectiveTier 5, SummitQualities

having or showing no mercy

A merciless critic.

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The true synonym

unmerciful

Same sentence, swapped: A unmerciful critic.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where merciless stands in the sentence above.

barbaric
malignant
ferocious

Where merciless turns up in the game

merciless is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play merciless

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so merciless reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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