unrelenting

1. 1.

   not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

   “grim determination”

   “grim necessity”

   “Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty”

   “relentless persecution”

   “the stern demands of parenthood”

   Synonymsgriminexorablerelentlesssternunappeasableunforgiving

   Similarimplacable
2. 2.

   punishingly harsh

   “the brutal summer sun”

   “a brutal winter”

   Synonymsbrutal

   Similarintense
3. 3.

   never-ceasing

   “the relentless beat of the drums”

   Synonymspersistentrelentless

   Similarcontinual

Questions about unrelenting

What does unrelenting mean?

unrelenting means "not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unrelenting?

unrelenting has 4 syllables: un-re-len-ting. The stress falls on "len". In IPA it is /ˌʌnɹiˈlɛntɪŋ/.

What is another word for unrelenting?

Close synonyms include grim, inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is unrelenting a common word?

unrelenting is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.