Qualities

Synonyms for ruthless

The synonym for ruthless recorded in this bank is pitiless, in the sense "without mercy or pity". 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 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for ruthless

pitilessadjective, in the sense "without mercy or pity"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day ruthless is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampQualities

without mercy or pity

An act of ruthless ferocity.

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The true synonym

pitiless

Same sentence, swapped: An act of pitiless ferocity.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

brute
severe
sadistic

Where ruthless turns up in the game

ruthless is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

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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. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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