unrelenting
unrelenting adjective: not relenting; not yielding in strength, severity, or determination.
Adjective
unrelenting (comparative more unrelenting, superlative most unrelenting)
- Not relenting; not yielding in strength, severity, or determination.
- There’s faith in their unrelenting woes, / There’s Life in the Old Land yet!1908, James Ryder Randall, “There’s Life in the Old Land Yet”, in Maryland, my Maryland, and other poems, Baltimore, Md.; New York: John Murphy Company, page 23
- Synonyms:
- unyielding, brutal, hard, harsh, stern, cruel, relentless
- Having no pity; not being or becoming lenient, mild, gentle, or merciful.
- Tears may not bring again Sardathrion. But this the gods may do who have seen, and seen with unrelenting eyes, the sorrows of ten thousand worlds—thy gods may weep for thee.1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 5
unrelenting meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
unrelenting in Tamil
- மனமிரங்காத
unrelenting in Bengali
- unrelenting
- ক্ষমাহীন khomahin
unrelenting in Malayalam
- continuous, continual, constant
- ശമനമില്ലാത്ത, തീവ്രത കുറയാത്ത, കാർക്കശ്യം കുറയാത്ത, തുടർച്ചയായ, അടങ്ങാത്ത, അവിരാമമായ
- inflexible, implacable, uncompromising
- ശമിക്കാത്ത, കൊടുംപകയുള്ള, സമാധാനപ്പെടുത്താൻ സാദ്ധ്യമല്ലാത്ത, മർക്കടമുഷ്ടിയായ, വിട്ടുവീഴ്ചയില്ലാത്ത, വഴങ്ങാത്ത
More languagesFewer languages
- unrelenting in Kannada
- ನಿಷ್ಕರುಣೆಯ, ದಯೆ ದಾಕ್ಷಿಣ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲದ, ಉಬ್ಬರವಿಳಿಯದ, ಸಮಾಧಾನವಾಗದ
- unrelenting in Indonesian
- tidak berampun
Synonyms of unrelenting
Forms of unrelenting
| comparative | more unrelenting |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unrelenting |
Origin of unrelenting
From un- + relenting.
Words formed from unrelenting
Questions about unrelenting
- What does unrelenting mean?
- Unrelenting means not relenting; not yielding in strength, severity, or determination.
- What is unrelenting in Tamil?
- Unrelenting in Tamil is மனமிரங்காத. See Unrelenting meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is unrelenting?
- Unrelenting is an adjective.
Words near unrelenting in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unrelenting (page history and authors); unrelenting (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unrelenting (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ক্ষমাহীন (Bengali) (page history and authors); unrelenting (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); unrelenting (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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