Unrelenting
[ʌnrɪ'lentɪŋ] or [,ʌnrɪ'lɛntɪŋ]
Definition
(a.) Not relenting; unyielding; rigid; hard; stern; cruel.
Editor: Monica
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Inexorable, implacable, pitiless, relentless, merciless, unmerciful, uncompassionate, hard, cruel, unpitying, severe, stern, harsh, bitter, austere, rigorous, strait-laced, peremptory.
Editor: Noreen
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Inexorable, unyielding, pitiless, stem, cruel, bard,[See FAVORABLE]
Typist: Susan
Definition
adj. not relenting: inflexible: cruel.—adv. Unrelen′tingly.—n. Unrelen′tingness.
Typed by Joan
Examples
- Unhappily there is more, much more, which the unrelenting pecuniary pressure of Mr. Blake's cheque obliges me to tell. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The object of his search and his unrelenting animosity, now a decrepit old man, was seated at a bare deal table, on which stood a miserable candle. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Typed by Joan