UNRELENTINGLY Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

unrelentingly

adverb

Definition of unrelentingly

as in unremittingly

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Recent Examples of unrelentingly And while most of the film is unrelentingly grim, its few stabs at dark humor — most notably the punchlines about the grandmother’s faulty memory — didn’t garner a chuckle from me. — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 10 July 2026 An enemy that was hit hard but remains unrelentingly hostile and is now reaping unexpected strategic gains. — Daniel B. Shapiro, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026 The workforce’s youngest cohort has been labeled lazy, entitled, and unrelentingly pessimistic by their elders. — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 8 June 2026 Acker’s work wasn’t unrelentingly serious. — Paul Hodgins, Oc Register, 14 May 2026 Kimmel's come in for criticism in recent months because his show is so unrelentingly unfunny, extreme, and tough to watch. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026 What does matter is turning fear to strength by focusing on holding his school and his community together, Batres told CNN — and that is unrelentingly hard. — Sara Sidner, CNN Money, 21 Mar. 2026 The true story of the Von Erich wrestling family was so unrelentingly tragic that when The Iron Claw finally got made, director Sean Durkin opted to leave one brother out entirely. — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026 Public life is often unrelentingly ugly. — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 24 Jan. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrelentingly

Adverb

The hotels in Canada’s biggest city tend to skew either unremittingly corporate or standard bohemian-chic.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 May 2026
And hammering a prime spawning flat unremittingly will just as surely scatter the fish to find their springtime bliss elsewhere.

— John Phillips, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2026

Definition of unremittingly

Adverb

Brown-Forman, best known as the makers of Jack Daniel’s and Old Forester, had steadfastly refused other takeover efforts in years past, according to people close with the family.

— Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 26 July 2026
Peterson, now 53, has spent half his life behind bars and has steadfastly maintained his innocence.

— Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026

Definition of steadfastly

Adverb

These Flock cameras, now deployed across the state, have also been used in a collaboration between the FWC and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to continuously pull up driver’s records and vehicle information.

— Isabella Herrera, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2026
These in-between areas often contained a mix of residential, commercial and industrial uses, and many appear to have changed continuously in the decades since the maps were drawn in 1960s.

— Mahbubur Meenar, The Conversation, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of continuously

Adverb

Meanwhile, that state’s unemployment rate has climbed steadily since the beginning of the year.

— Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
Tries from Max Jorgensen and Fraser McReight early in the second half helped Australia build a nine-point lead but Japan steadily ate into that advantage with a pair of penalties from Takuro Matsunaga.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of steadily

Adverb

Protect Both Academic Freedom and Institutional Neutrality Universities should vigorously defend the freedom of individual faculty and students to pursue controversial ideas.

— David Rosowsky, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
The easy solution is to remove the most vigorously growing plants to give the rest a fighting chance.

— Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of vigorously

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Unlike cameras, lidar actively measures distance, allowing vehicles to build a detailed depth map of the road ahead.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2026
Prostate biopsies are lucrative for urologists, who can do them in their practice and therefore have an incentive to order them, and so is finding clinically insignificant cancers that can be actively monitored, potentially through further biopsies.

— Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of actively

Adverb

Plenty of his peers filled the void, none more energetically than Chesney, who has by now built a beachy brand that almost rivals Buffett’s.

— Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 19 July 2026
There was also a large contingent of Iranian fans who energetically waved the nation’s current flag.

— Todd Harmonson, Oc Register, 16 June 2026

Definition of energetically

Adverb

While its author, a 25-year-old Nigerian named Jerry Falade, also vehemently denies using AI, in his case nobody seems to believe him — especially after Publishers Lunch ran his manuscript through a detector and got a 97 percent AI score.

— Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2026
Madix vehemently denies sharing them with anyone other than Leviss.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of vehemently

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