Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having no pity; not merciful.
  • Not exciting pity.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word unpitiful.

Examples

  • Unbending, unpitiful, does the universe seem to be when the idea of law and

    George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy George Willis Cooke 1885

  • Unbending, unpitiful, does the universe seem to be when the idea of law and Nemesis is so strongly presented, and with no relief from it in the theory of man's free will.

    George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy Cooke, George W 1884

  • In particular I remember visiting the battered fragments of an unfortunate brig or schooner that had been loaded with apples, and finding fine unpitiful sport in rushing into the spent waves and picking up the red-cheeked fruit from the frothy, seething foam.

    The Story of My Boyhood and Youth John Muir 1876

  • The idea of a harsh, unpitiful world arose before her for the first time, and the thought of leaving her little ones in it unprotected was an anguish which rent her heart.

    Oldtown Folks 1869

  • There might be other causes: some men say he was proud, and covetous, and unpitiful.

    In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • To be sure, I can’t say myself as she was over-complaisant to make us welcome; but I hope I am above being so unpitiful as for to owe her a grudge for it now she’s so down in the mouth.”

    Cecilia 2008

  • "If you had not known Ruth as well as you do -- if during her stay with us you had marked anything wrong, or forward, or deceitful, or immodest, I would say at once, 'Don't allow Mr Bradshaw to take her into his house;' but still I would say, 'Don't tell of her sin and her sorrow to so severe a man -- so unpitiful a judge.'

    Ruth Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • To be sure, I can't say myself as she was over - complaisant to make us welcome; but I hope I am above being so unpitiful as for to owe her a grudge for it now she's so down in the mouth. "

    Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 Fanny Burney 1796

  • I shall be as much above being unpitiful as anybody else. "

    Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 Fanny Burney 1796

  • To be fure, I can't fay myfelf as fhe was over - complaifant to make us welcome; but I hope I am above being fo unpitiful as for to owe her a grudge for it now fhe's fo down in the mouth. "

    Cecilia, or, Memoirs of an heiress : in five volumes 1782

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.