Relentless \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.
[1913 Webster]
For this the avenging power employs his darts, . . .
Thus will persist, relentless in his ire. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster] --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
relentless
adj 1: 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" [syn: grim, inexorable, stern,
unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting]
2: never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the drums" [syn: persistent,
unrelenting]
WordNet (r) 2.0
204 Moby Thesaurus words for "relentless":
adamant, adamantine, ardent, assiduous, bound,
bound and determined, bowelless, cast-iron, ceaseless, certain,
committed, constant, continual, continuing, continuous, cruel,
decided, decisive, dedicated, definite, determined, devoted,
diligent, dog-eat-dog, dogged, dour, earnest, enduring, energetic,
faithful, fated, fateful, ferocious, fervent, fierce, firm, flinty,
fundamentalist, grim, habitual, hard, hard-core, hardworking,
harsh, heartless, hidebound, immovable, immutable, implacable,
impliable, inalterable, incessant, inclement, indefatigable,
indefeasible, indomitable, industrious, inelastic, ineluctable,
inescapable, inevasible, inevitable, inexorable, inflexible,
inhuman, insistent, intractable, intransigent, invincible, iron,
ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, irreconcilable, irresistible,
irrevocable, laborious, lasting, loyal, merciless, mortal,
muscle-bound, necessary, never idle, never-tiring, obdurate,
obstinate, orthodox, patient, patient as Job, permanent, perpetual,
perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious,
pitiless, plodding, plugging, preoccupied, procrustean, purist,
puristic, puritan, puritanic, purposeful, rapt, regular,
remorseless, resistless, resolute, resolved, rigid, rigorist,
rigoristic, rigorous, rock-ribbed, rockbound, ruthless, sedulous,
serious, sincere, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, stable,
steadfast, steady, steely, stern, stiff, stiff-necked,
straightlaced, straitlaced, strenuous, strict, stringent, stubborn,
sure, sure as death, sure as fate, tenacious, tireless, tough,
unabated, unabating, unaffected, unalterable, unappeasable,
unavoidable, unbending, unbroken, unceasing, unchangeable,
uncompassionate, uncompassioned, uncompromising, unconquerable,
uncontrollable, undaunted, undeflectable, undeviating,
undiscouraged, undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unfeeling,
unflagging, unflinching, unforgiving, ungiving, unintermitting,
uninterrupted, unmerciful, unmoved, unmoving, unnodding, unpitiful,
unpitying, unpreventable, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unrelieved,
unremitting, unremorseful, unsleeping, unsparing, unstoppable,
unswerving, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, untiring, unwavering,
unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, unyielding, utterly attentive,
vehement, weariless, wholehearted, without mercy, zealous
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
grim, inexorable, persistent, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting
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