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Synonyms & Antonyms of unrelenting
1
sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion
- that professor tends to be unrelenting about deadlines
Synonyms for unrelenting
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- bullheaded,
- dogged,
- hard,
- hard-nosed,
- hardened,
- hardheaded,
- headstrong,
- immovable,
- implacable,
- inconvincible,
- inflexible,
- intransigent,
- mulish,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- opinionated,
- ossified,
- pat,
- pertinacious,
- perverse,
- pigheaded,
- self-opinionated,
- self-willed,
- stiff-necked,
- stubborn,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unyielding,
- willful
- (or wilful)
Words Related to unrelenting
- determined,
- hell-bent,
- inexorable,
- persistent,
- relentless,
- resolved,
- set,
- single-minded,
- steadfast,
- stouthearted,
- tenacious,
- unflinching
- firm,
- hard-line,
- hard-shell
- (or hard-shelled),
- iron,
- severe,
- stern,
- strict
- bloody-minded
- [chiefly British],
- cantankerous
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2
showing no signs of slackening or yielding in one's purpose
- unrelenting in the pursuit of equality for all races
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The first known use of unrelenting was in 1590
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