[
UK
/ˌʌnɹɪlˈiːvd/
]
[ US /ˌənɹiˈɫivd/ ]
[ US /ˌənɹiˈɫivd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
not lessened or diminished
unrelieved suffering
How To Use unrelieved In A Sentence
- The scale is daunting, the monotony unrelieved.
- Upon receiving the crushing news that one's child has a genetic disorder or birth defect, parents may suppose that the future has suddenly grown unrelievedly bleak.
- So the cycle of blame and retaliation continues, unrelieved and unrelieving, as history and today's newspaper bear witness.
- Second, the view from abroad lacks the tendentiousness of American commentators, who have long ago dug into their partisan bunkers (The New York Times is bad, but The Wall Street Journal is so unrelievedly dogmatic that it makes you cry for the old days of kindly Robert Bartley). Robert Teitelman: Politics and economic truths
- And apart from two very faint stripes of marginally lighter brown decorating his face, his fur was unrelieved by any markings, and seemed to absorb the light from the overhead fluorescents.
- Danny Boy sat up, his thick hair like a helmet on his head, the bleariness in his eyes unrelieved. Rain Gods
- For starters, the dances on offer — two abstract dramas bookending a kinetic treatise on physics — are ultimately too unrelievedly samey. Times, Sunday Times
- Either way, the result is unrelieved shallowness.
- It's the unrelieved drabness of big industrial cities that depresses me.
- He was divided between pleasure at his success, and sorrow that the castaways were as yet unrelieved, for he could not doubt that the gunboat was the same that had been dispatched from Brisbane to their assistance. Round the World in Seven Days