relentless

relentless

English

Etymology

relent +‎ -less

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈlɛntləs/

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Adjective

relentless (comparative more relentless, superlative most relentless)

1. Unrelenting or unyielding in severity.
   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 111:

     She sniffed, too, comprehendingly, and fixed her son with a relentless eye.

2. Unremitting, steady and persistent.
   • 2016 January 31, "Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?," Vanity Fair (retrieved 21 January 2016):

     In Clintonworld, the reaction to Grassley’s relentless assault on Huma is one of resignation.

Derived terms

• relentlessness

Translations

unrelenting or unyielding in severity

Arabic: عَدِيم الشَّفَقَة‎ (ʿadīm aš-šafaqa), قَاسٍ‎ (qāsin) Bulgarian: неумоли́м (bg) (neumolím), непрекло́нен (bg) (nepreklónen) Catalan: implacable (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 永無止境 (zh), 永无止境 (zh) (yǒngwúzhǐjìng) Czech: neúprosný, nelítostný, nemilosrdný, nesmiřitelný Dutch: meedogenloos (nl) Finnish: leppymätön (fi), säälimätön (fi), heltymätön French: implacable (fr), impitoyable (fr) Georgian: დაუცხრომელი (daucxromeli), დაუღალავი (dauɣalavi), ულმობელი (ulmobeli) German: unnachgiebig (de), unbarmherzig (de), unnachsichtig, unerbittlich (de) Irish: gan staonadh Italian: implacabile (it) Maori: papahueke Portuguese: implacável (pt) Romanian: sever (ro) Russian: неумоли́мый (ru) (neumolímyj), непрекло́нный (ru) (nepreklónnyj), (merciless) беспоща́дный (ru) (bespoščádnyj), безжа́лостный (ru) (bezžálostnyj) Spanish: implacable (es), furioso (es) Ukrainian: безжа́лісний (uk) (bezžálisnyj), безжа́льний (uk) (bezžálʹnyj)

unremitting, steady and persistent

Bulgarian: неотсла́бващ (bg) (neotslábvašt) Catalan: inexorable (ca) Czech: nepolevující, trvalý (cs) m, vytrvalý (cs) m, neochabujicí, neustálý (cs) m, nepřetržitý (cs) m, nekonečný (cs) m Dutch: voortdurend (nl) Finnish: periksiantamaton, sinnikäs (fi) French: tenace (fr) German: unablässig (de), unermüdlich (de) Irish: síorleanúnach Italian: tenace (it) Latin: inexōrābilis Maori: āwai, papahueke Norwegian: Bokmål: nådeløs Polish: bezustanny (pl) Portuguese: inexorável (pt) Russian: упо́рный (ru) (upórnyj), неослабева́ющий (ru) (neoslabevájuščij) Spanish: inexorable (es), incansable (es) Ukrainian: невпи́нний (nevpýnnyj)