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Relentless vs Unremitting - What's the difference?

relentless | unremitting |

As adjectives the difference between relentless and unremitting

is that relentless is unrelenting or unyielding in severity while unremitting is incessant; never slackening.

relentless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Unrelenting or unyielding in severity
  • Unremitting, steady and persistent

    • Derived terms

    * relentlessness

    unremitting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • incessant; never slackening
  • * 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.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=4 citation , passage=These thoughts supported my spirits, while I pursued my undertaking with unremitting ardour.}}

    Derived terms

    * unremittingly

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