Answer me this, if you have no sense your are senseless, if a car has now power it is powerless and if you are happy you are filled with happyness. So if your ruthless what is it to have ruth?
Answer me this, if you have no sense your are senseless, if a car has now power it is powerless and if you are happy you are filled with happyness. So if your ruthless what is it to have ruth?
Apparently it's: 1. Compassion or pity for another. 2. Sorrow or misery about one's own misdeeds or flaws. From www.thefreedictionary.com Going by this definition it would seem that if you're ruthless you also have psychopathic tendencies!
Apparently it's: 1. Compassion or pity for another. 2. Sorrow or misery about one's own misdeeds or flaws. From www.thefreedictionary.com Going by this definition it would seem that if you're ruthless you also have psychopathic tendencies!
One of the great imponderables ........... Like, Where does your lap go when you stand up? and, Why is abbreviation such a long word?
One of the great imponderables ........... Like, Where does your lap go when you stand up? and, Why is abbreviation such a long word?
Kirstie's right. The original mediaeval word 'ruth' has fallen from common use, but is still in even fairly small Oxford dictionaries. Ruth, itself is based on 'rue' which is still used, but not normally in this sense to mean 'compassion or pity', but is when it appears in 'ruefull'. Ruthless is therefore without compassion or pity.
Kirstie's right. The original mediaeval word 'ruth' has fallen from common use, but is still in even fairly small Oxford dictionaries. Ruth, itself is based on 'rue' which is still used, but not normally in this sense to mean 'compassion or pity', but is when it appears in 'ruefull'. Ruthless is therefore without compassion or pity.
Just like you never hear of gruntled workers. Although Trusty has clearly met a few grunting workers.
