Definition of unrelieved
: not relieved
- a grim story unrelieved by humor
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
play \ˌən-ri-ˈlē-vəd-lē\ adverb-
- If the past several paragraphs have sounded too unrelievedly negative, I hasten to make partial amends.
- —Karen Morin
