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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNREMIT'TING, a. Not abating; not relaxing for a time; incessant; continued; as unremitting exertions.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger" [syn: ceaseless, constant, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1728 not remitting ; constant, incessant <unremitting pain> • unremittingly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. never relaxing or slackening, incessant. Derivatives: unremittingly adv. unremittingness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Unremitting Un`re*mit"ting, a. Not remitting; incessant; continued; persevering; as, unremitting exertions. --Cowper. -- Un`re*mit"ting*ly, adv. -- Un`re*mit"ting*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Something that is unremitting continues without stopping or becoming less intense. (FORMAL) I was sent to boarding school, where I spent six years of unremitting misery... He watched her with unremitting attention. ADJ: usu ADJ n • unremittingly The weather was unremittingly awful. ADV: usu ADV adj

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Unceasing, continual, persevering, constant, unabated, incessant, assiduous, sedulous, diligent, indefatigable, unwearied.

Moby Thesaurus

abiding, ageless, ardent, articulated, assiduous, catenated, ceaseless, changeless, chattering, coeternal, concatenated, connected, constant, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, cyclical, dateless, diligent, direct, dogged, endless, enduring, energetic, eternal, eterne, ever-being, ever-durable, ever-during, everlasting, everliving, faithful, featureless, fervent, gapless, hard, hardworking, immediate, immemorial, immutable, inalterable, incessant, incommutable, inconvertible, indefatigable, indefeasible, indestructible, indomitable, industrious, inert, infinite, insistent, insusceptible of change, interminable, intransmutable, invariable, invincible, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, joined, jointless, laborious, lasting, linked, loyal, machine gun, monotonous, never idle, never-ceasing, never-ending, never-tiring, noble, nonreturnable, nonreversible, nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous, obstinate, olamic, oscillating, patient, patient as Job, perdurable, perennial, periodic, permanent, perpetual, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, plodding, plugging, preoccupied, pulsating, rapid, rapt, recurrent, regular, relentless, remaining, repeated, repetitive, resolute, reverseless, round-the-clock, running, seamless, sedulous, sempiternal, serried, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, smooth, stable, staccato, staying, steadfast, steady, sticking, straight, strenuous, stubborn, stuttering, sustained, tenacious, timeless, tireless, twenty-four-hour, unabating, unalterable, unalterative, unaltered, unbroken, unceasing, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unconquerable, undaunted, undeflectable, undeviating, undifferentiated, undiscouraged, undrooping, undying, unending, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unmodifiable, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unrelieved, unrestorable, unreturnable, unsleeping, unsparing, unstopped, unsusceptible, unswerving, untiring, unvariable, unvarying, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, utterly attentive, vehement, vibrating, weariless, without end, zealous