Word Meanings - RELENTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to the distresses of others; destitute of tenderness; unrelenting; unyielding; unpitying; as, a prey to relentless despotism. For this the avenging power employs his darts,.. Thus
Additional info about word: RELENTLESS
Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to the distresses of others; destitute of tenderness; unrelenting; unyielding; unpitying; as, a prey to relentless despotism. For this the avenging power employs his darts,.. Thus will persist, relentless in his ire. Dryden. -- Re*lent"less*ly, adv. -- Re*lent"less*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RELENTLESS)
- Austere
- Hard
- rigid
- stern
- severe
- morose
- unrelenting
- unyielding
- strict
- rigorous
- harsh
- sour
- relentless
- Fell
- Cruel
- barbarous
- inhuman
- savage
- bloody
- direful
- merciless
- pitiless
- ruthless
- remorseless
- fierce
- truculent
Related words: (words related to RELENTLESS)
- BARBAROUS
slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous - INHUMANITY
The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns. - STERNFOREMOST
With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell. - STERNUTATORY
Sternutative. -- n. - STRICT
Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. Syn. -- Exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe. -- Strict, Severe. Strict, applied to a person, denotes that he conforms in his motives and acts - STERNOHYOID
Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage. - STERNAL
Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum. Sternal ribs. See the Note under Rib, n., 1. - MERCILESS
Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves. The foe is merciless, and will not pity. Shak. Syn. -- Cruel; unmerciful; remorseless; ruthless; pitiless; - STERNSMAN
A steersman. - STERNMOST
Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy. - MOROSE
particular way or habit, fr. mos, moris, manner, habit, way of life: 1. Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe. "A morose and affected taciturnity." I. Watts. 2. Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts. Syn. -- Sullen; gruff; - STERNOMASTOID
Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process. - MOROSENESS
Sourness of temper; sulenness. Learn good humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degrees of pride and moroseness. I. Watts. Note: Moroseness is not precisely peevishness or fretfulness, though often accompained with it. It denotes - RIGID
1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible. Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears. Milton. 2. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence. - RIGIDLY
In a rigid manner; stiffly. - STERNSON
The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee. - TRUCULENTLY
In a truculent manner. - HARSH
Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony. (more info) to G. harsch, Dan. harsk rancid, Sw. härsk; from the same source as 1. Rough; disagreeable; grating; esp.: To the touch."Harsh sand." Boyle. To the taste. - BLOODY-MINDED
Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden. - STRICTNESS
Quality or state of being strict. - ASTRICT
To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4. Burrill. (more info) 1. To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract. The solid parts were to be relaxed or astricted. Arbuthnot. 2. To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to - BOA CONSTRICTOR
A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix. Note: It has a succession of spots, alternately black and yellow, extending along the back. It kills its prey by constriction. - PROSTERNATION
Dejection; depression. Wiseman. - OVERRIGOROUS
Too rigorous; harsh. - EPISTERNUM
One of the lateral pieces next to the sternum in the thorax of insects. (more info) A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle. Same as Epiplastron. - RESTRICT
Restricted. - REDISTRICT
To divide into new districts. - SUPRASTERNAL
Situated above, or anterior to, the sternum. - SEMISAVAGE
Half savage.