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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty;
- Example: "grim determination"
- Example: "grim necessity"
- Example: "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"
- Example: "relentless persecution"
- Example: "the stern demands of parenthood"
[syn: grim, inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting]

2. never-ceasing;
- Example: "the relentless beat of the drums"
[syn: persistent, relentless, unrelenting]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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] -- Re*lent"less*ly, adv. --
   Re*lent"less*ness, n.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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, relentless,
           stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting]
    2: never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the drums" [syn:
       persistent, relentless, unrelenting]