Relentless
[rɪ'lentlɪs] or [rɪ'lɛntləs]
Definition
(a.) Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to the distresses of others; destitute of tenderness; unrelenting; unyielding; unpitying; as, a prey to relentless despotism.
Edited by Barrett
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unrelenting, unpitying, unforgiving, implacable, inexorable, unappeasable, cruel, vindictive, rancorous, merciless, unmerciful, uncompassionate, pitiless, hard.
Typed by Hester
Examples
- In brief, the commission failed to see that the working conscience of America is to-day bound up with the very evil it is supposed to eradicate by a relentless warfare. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- O, you are too relentless--there's a limit to the cruelty of savages! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Then I must speak for it, continued the deep, relentless voice. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Archer listened unmoved to the relentless chorus. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- They show their real vitality by a relentless growth in spite of all the little fences and obstacles that foolish politicians devise. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Tell me all you can of the years that I have been robbed by a relentless fate of her dear companionship. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I am not naturally that which you have seen me, hard, selfish, and relentless. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- There is thus a heavy toll reckoned against the user, and the creditor is relentless in demanding payment. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Mr. Bucket shakes his relentless head. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- What can it mean, this relentless persecution? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Death, cruel and relentless, had entered these beloved walls. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Typed by Hester