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US
/ˌənɹiˈmɪtɪŋ, ˌənɹɪˈmɪtɪŋ/
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[ UK /ˌʌnɹiːmˈɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ˌʌnɹiːmˈɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
the ceaseless thunder of surf
the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy
man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation
night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city
in constant pain
unremitting demands of hunger
the never-ending search for happiness
How To Use unremitting In A Sentence
- This book is an unremitting account of misery, privation, and pointlessness in a world of dun landscapes, tormenting insects, malnutrition, and cultural stagnancy.
- By contrast, at the heart of the third version is the revolutionary turbulence of a "rotatory movement that never comes to a standstill," and which Schelling compares to an "unremitting wheel" and the 'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)
- Fall is not a failure, can not stand up to failure; walking is not successful, only unremittingly is victory.
- The film is a joy - hilariously funny and unremittingly scabrous.
- Yet when it comes to how they should view their adopted country, the message is one of almost unremitting hostility. Times, Sunday Times
- So, too, does the unremitting spectre of war. The Times Literary Supplement
- If the time had dragged this would have been a hard job, unremitting and tedious.
- I was sent to boarding school, where I spent six years of unremitting misery.
- Quitting this situation he lived for some years as gardener in several considerable families: after which he established himself in London as a seedsman; and has ever since followed that business with unremitting diligence and success. The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805
- The other path for failed attempts at behavioral control through physical punishment was outright cruelty and sometimes descent into unremitting family warfare. On the Edge: A History of Poor Black Children and Their American Dreams