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Sustained vs Unremitting - What's the difference?

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Sustained is a related term of unremitting.


As adjectives the difference between sustained and unremitting

is that sustained is held continuously at a certain level while unremitting is incessant; never slackening.

As a verb sustained

is (sustain).

sustained

English

Verb

(head)
  • (sustain)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Held continuously at a certain level.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose
    • , title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}
  • (music) Held at a certain pitch.

    • Synonyms

    * (held at a certain level) constant, continuous, steady

    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

    References