Unrelenting vs Dogged - What's the difference?
unrelenting | dogged |
Not relenting; having no pity; not being or becoming lenient, mild, gentle, or merciful; unyielding; inflexibly rigid; hard; stern; cruel.
(dog)
* 1903 , , The Way of All Flesh :
stubbornly persevering, steadfast
* 1900 , , The Son of the Wolf :
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage :
As adjectives the difference between unrelenting and dogged
is that unrelenting is not relenting; having no pity; not being or becoming lenient, mild, gentle, or merciful; unyielding; inflexibly rigid; hard; stern; cruel while dogged is stubbornly persevering, steadfast.As a verb dogged is
(dog).unrelenting
English
Adjective
(en adjective)References
* *dogged
English
Etymology 1
From the verb to dog .Verb
(head)- 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)- 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.
- 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.
