| Pronunciation: | | ri'lentlis
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| Matching Terms: | | relentlessly, relentlessness
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- [adj] never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the drums"
- [adj] not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; "grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"; "relentless persecution"; "the stern demands of parenthood"
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| | Synonyms: | | continual, grim, implacable, inexorable, persistent, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Re*lent"less\, 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.
For this the avenging power employs his darts, . . .
Thus will persist, relentless in his ire. --Dryden.
-- {Re*lent"less*ly}, adv. -- {Re*lent"less*ness}, n.
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