unrelieved

adjective

un·re·lieved | \ ˌən-ri-ˈlēvd

Definition of unrelieved

: not relieved a grim story unrelieved by humor : such as

a : not given relief : furnished no assistance, remedy, or mitigation chronic, unrelieved stress/pain unrelieved poverty

b : not including anything that provides a desirable change : monotonous, unvarying Across that endless, unrelieved grassland came a tumultuous rainstorm … —James Michener

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unrelievedly \ˌən-ri-ˈlē-vəd-lē

\ adverb

If the past several paragraphs have sounded too unrelievedly negative, I hasten to make partial amends. —Karen Morin

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Yet the feelings evoked by these often grim stories affect us differently than does the unrelieved gloom spread over Jude. — BostonGlobe.com, "A writer’s writer and the inevitability of bad times," 6 July 2018 Bloomberg View contributor Ramesh Ponnuru presents a commentary arguing that the history of U.S. protectionism has been, on the whole, one of almost unrelieved failure. — Bloomberg.com, "Ramesh Ponnuru on the Errors of Protectionism: View (Audio)," 24 Aug. 2017 In yoga, the hips are often referred to as storehouses for tension and unrelieved emotions. — Chloe Kernaghan, Time, "Try This 10-Minute Yoga Routine to Help Increase Your Hip Flexibility," 29 May 2018 Rather than wrestle her subject into more comfortable territory, Khakpour forces her reader to deal with unrelieved uncertainty. — Lidija Haas, The New Yorker, "Memoirs of Disease and Disbelief," 17 June 2014 Never guilty of unrelieved kindness toward his characters, Trevor seems overtly punitive in some of these stories. — Katherine A. Powers, WSJ, "‘Last Stories’ Review: A 20th-Century Chekhov," 11 May 2018 The account of the unrelieved tragedy of her life went far beyond anything which anyone had ever described to me in spoken words. — Charles Mcgrath, New York Times, "No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say," 16 Jan. 2018

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