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say it: ROOTH-luhs
ruthless is an adjective meaning "without mercy or pity". It is pronounced /ˈɹuθləs/ — ROOTH-luhs. It carries one recorded sense.
without mercy or pity
“an act of ruthless ferocity”
“a monster of remorseless cruelty”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ruthless come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.