dog-eat-dog
[ dawg-eet-dawg, dog-eet-dog ]
Synonyms for dog-eat-dog
- aggressive
- brutal
- competitive
- cutthroat
- every person for themselves
- fierce
- merciless
- ruthless
- unmerciful
- vicious
- voracious
- without mercy
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EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR DOG-EAT-DOG
If we eventually lick the Kradens, one of the very reasons will be because we're a dog-eat-dog society.
I cannot live by the dog-eat-dog code that seems to prevail wherever folk get jammed together in an unwieldy social mass.
RELATED WORDS AND SYNONYMS FOR DOG-EAT-DOG
competitive
adjectivewilling to opposecutthroat
adjectiveruthlessmerciless
adjectivemean, heartless- barbarous
- callous
- compassionless
- cruel
- cutthroat
- dog-eat-dog
- fierce
- gratuitous
- grim
- hard
- hardhearted
- harsh
- hatchet job
- having a killer instinct
- implacable
- inexorable
- inhumane
- iron-fisted
- mean machine
- mortal
- pitiless
- relentless
- ruthless
- severe
- unappeasable
- uncalled-for
- unfeeling
- unflinching
- unforgiving
- unmerciful
- unpitying
- unrelenting
- unsparing
- unsympathetic
- unyielding
- wanton
pitiless
adjectivewithout mercy or careruthless
adjectivemean, heartless- adamant
- barbarous
- brutal
- callous
- cold
- cold-blooded
- cruel
- cutthroat
- dog-eat-dog
- feral
- ferocious
- fierce
- grim
- hard
- hard-hearted
- harsh
- implacable
- inexorable
- inhuman
- ironfisted
- killer
- malevolent
- merciless
- mortal
- obdurate
- pitiless
- rancorous
- relentless
- remorseless
- revengeful
- sadistic
- savage
- severe
- stern
- stony
- surly
- unappeasable
- unfeeling
- unforgiving
- unmerciful
- unrelenting
- unsympathetic
- unyielding
- vicious
- vindictive
- without pity
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.