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Synonyms for ironfisted
adj mean, heartless- barbarous
- callous
- cruel
- fierce
- grim
- harsh
- implacable
- inexorable
- inhumane
- relentless
- ruthless
- severe
- unforgiving
- unrelenting
- unsparing
- unyielding
- unmerciful
- compassionless
- cutthroat
- dog-eat-dog
- gratuitous
- hard
- hardhearted
- hatchet job
- having a killer instinct
- iron-fisted
- mean machine
- mortal
- pitiless
- unappeasable
- uncalled-for
- unfeeling
- unflinching
- unpitying
- unsympathetic
- wanton
Antonyms for ironfisted
- bright
- calm
- compassionate
- considerate
- easy
- feeling
- flexible
- gentle
- kind
- merciful
- mild
- nice
- peaceful
- polite
- remorseful
- sympathetic
- tender
- yielding
- giving
- sparing
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.
implacable
adjective. merciless, cruel
pinching
adjective. stingy
- acquisitive
- avaricious
- chary
- cheap
- chintzy
- churlish
- close
- close-fisted
- costive
- covetous
- curmudgeonly
- economical
- extortionate
- frugal
- grasping
- greedy
- grudging
- hard-fisted
- ignoble
- illiberal
- ironfisted
- mean
- miserly
- narrow
- near
- niggard
- niggardly
- parsimonious
- penny-pinching
- pennywise
- penurious
- petty
- pinchpenny
- rapacious
- saving
- scrimping
- scurvy
- selfish
- skimping
- sordid
- sparing
- thrifty
- tight
- tightfisted
- uncharitable
- ungenerous
- ungiving
ruthless
adjective. mean, 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
stingy
adjective. penny-pinching, averse to spending money
- acquisitive
- avaricious
- chary
- cheap
- chintzy
- churlish
- close
- close-fisted
- costive
- covetous
- curmudgeonly
- economical
- extortionate
- frugal
- grasping
- greedy
- grudging
- ignoble
- illiberal
- ironfisted
- mean
- miserly
- narrow
- near
- parsimonious
- pennywise
- penurious
- petty
- pinchpenny
- rapacious
- saving
- scrimping
- scurvy
- selfish
- skimping
- sordid
- sparing
- thrifty
- tightfisted
- uncharitable
- ungenerous
- ungiving
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.