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unremitting

/ˌʌnɹɪˈmɪtɪŋ/US/ˌʌnɹɪˈmɪtɪŋ/

unremitting adjective: incessant; never slackening.

Adjective

unremitting (comparative more unremitting, superlative most unremitting)

  1. Incessant; never slackening.
    • These thoughts supported my spirits, while I pursued my undertaking with unremitting ardour.1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 4, in Frankenstein, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2011
    • 1961: J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato. In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.
      We can achieve this god‐likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.

unremitting meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

unremitting in Urdu

انتھک, لگاتار, مسلسل

unremitting in Malayalam

കുറയാത്ത, ആവേശം കുറയാത്ത, നിരന്തരമായ

unremitting in Kannada

ನಿಲ್ಲದ, ನಾಂಬದ, ಬಿಗಿತ ಕಳೆಯದ, ನಿರಂತರವಾದ, ಏಕಪ್ರಕಾರವಾದ, ಸತತ

Examples of unremitting in a sentence

  • The human life span will be extended to 200 years, but the last 150 will be spent in unremitting pain and sadness.2004, George Carlin, “IN THE FUTURE”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 93:
  • In fact, eighteenth-century British erotica has been the subject of unremitting attention for the last two decades.2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1...
  • "To meet the ambitions set-out by the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail, we need to have an unremitting focus upon sustainable delivery, innovation and collaboration. [...]."2021 July 14, Stefanie Foster, “Network News: Porterbrook takes over Long Marston rail site”, in RAIL, number 935, page 28:

Forms of unremitting

comparativemore unremitting
superlativemost unremitting

Origin of unremitting

un- + remitting, from remit (in now rare sense of “diminish, abate”), from Middle English remitten, from Latin remittere (“to send, send back”). Compare Old French remettre, remetre, remitter. Not from nonexistent unremit. First attested in 1728.

Words formed from unremitting

Words that rhyme with unremitting

Questions about unremitting

What does unremitting mean?
Unremitting means incessant; never slackening.
What is unremitting in Urdu?
Unremitting in Urdu is انتھک, لگاتار, مسلسل. See Unremitting meaning in Urdu.
How do you use unremitting in a sentence?
The human life span will be extended to 200 years, but the last 150 will be spent in unremitting pain and sadness.
What part of speech is unremitting?
Unremitting is an adjective.
How do you pronounce unremitting?
Unremitting is pronounced /ˌʌnɹɪˈmɪtɪŋ/ (UK).

Words near unremitting in the dictionary

  1. unremittant
  2. unremitted
  3. unremittedly
  4. unremittent
  5. unremittently
  6. unremitting
  7. unremittingly
  8. unremittingness
  9. unremixed
  10. unremodeled
  11. unremodelled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unremitting (page history and authors); unremitting (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unremitting (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unremitting (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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