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Unflagging vs Dogged - What's the difference?

unflagging | dogged |

As adjectives the difference between unflagging and dogged

is that unflagging is never tiring or lacking energy; without rest; without slowing while dogged is stubbornly persevering, steadfast.

As a verb dogged is

(dog).

unflagging

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Never tiring or lacking energy; without rest; without slowing.
  • : His unflagging efforts have not gone unnoticed.
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    • Synonyms

    * inexhaustible, tireless, untiring, unwearying, indefatigable

    dogged

    English

    Etymology 1

    From the verb to dog .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dog)
  • * 1903 , , The Way of All Flesh :
    • At night proctors patrolled the street and dogged your steps if you tried to go into any haunt where the presence of vice was suspected.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), characteristics similar to that of a dog .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • stubbornly persevering, steadfast
  • * 1900 , , The Son of the Wolf :
    • Still, the dogged obstinacy of his race held him to the pace he had set, and would hold him till he dropped in his tracks.
  • * 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage :
    • It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
    Synonyms
    * committed, determined, persistent, steadfast * See also
    Derived terms
    * doggedly * doggedness