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unrelieved

unrelieved adjective: utter; complete; without relief.

Adjective

unrelieved (comparative more unrelieved, superlative most unrelieved)

  1. Utter; complete; without relief.
    • Stock is generally well maintained, and the locomotives and railcars are kept scrupulously clean. The former are painted an unrelieved black, and the latter blue and cream, while the coaches are grey.1955 May, H. P. White, “The Togoland Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 349
    • Part of this movement was driven by a growing conviction among African Americans that they faced unrelieved discrimination.2020 June 8, Ronald Brownstein, “The partisan chasm over ‘systemic racism’ is on full display”, in CNN

Forms of unrelieved

comparativemore unrelieved
superlativemost unrelieved

Origin of unrelieved

From un- + relieved.

Words formed from unrelieved

Questions about unrelieved

What does unrelieved mean?
Unrelieved means utter; complete; without relief.
What part of speech is unrelieved?
Unrelieved is an adjective.

Words near unrelieved in the dictionary

  1. unreliant
  2. unrelievable
  3. unrelievableness
  4. unrelievably
  5. unrelieveable
  6. unrelieved
  7. unrelievedly
  8. unrelieving
  9. unreligion
  10. unreligions
  11. unreligious

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