unrelieved
adjective
un·re·lieved
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Definition of unrelieved
: not relieved
a grim story unrelieved by humor
: such as
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: not given relief : furnished no assistance, remedy, or mitigation
chronic, unrelieved stress/pain unrelieved poverty
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: not including anything that provides a desirable change : monotonous, unvarying
Across that endless, unrelieved grassland came a tumultuous rainstorm …— James Michener
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Other Words from unrelieved
unrelievedly
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adverb
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adverb
If the past several paragraphs have sounded too unrelievedly negative, I hasten to make partial amends.
— Karen Morin
Examples of unrelieved in a Sentence
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Omar said his tenure at KTU has been an unrelieved nightmare. — Ken Silverstein, The New Republic, "Shock Corridor," 19 Aug. 2019 Eligible patients must be diagnosed with an incurable disease or a condition that causes intolerable, unrelieved suffering. — Washington Post, "Voluntary euthanasia becomes legal in Australian state," 20 June 2019 Yet the feelings evoked by these often grim stories affect us differently than does the unrelieved gloom spread over Jude. — BostonGlobe.com, "A writer’s writer and the inevitability of bad times," 6 July 2018 Bloomberg View contributor Ramesh Ponnuru presents a commentary arguing that the history of U.S. protectionism has been, on the whole, one of almost unrelieved failure. — Bloomberg.com, "Ramesh Ponnuru on the Errors of Protectionism: View (Audio)," 24 Aug. 2017 In yoga, the hips are often referred to as storehouses for tension and unrelieved emotions. — Chloe Kernaghan, Time, "Try This 10-Minute Yoga Routine to Help Increase Your Hip Flexibility," 29 May 2018 Rather than wrestle her subject into more comfortable territory, Khakpour forces her reader to deal with unrelieved uncertainty. — Lidija Haas, The New Yorker, "Memoirs of Disease and Disbelief," 17 June 2014 Never guilty of unrelieved kindness toward his characters, Trevor seems overtly punitive in some of these stories. — Katherine A. Powers, WSJ, "‘Last Stories’ Review: A 20th-Century Chekhov," 11 May 2018 The account of the unrelieved tragedy of her life went far beyond anything which anyone had ever described to me in spoken words. — Charles Mcgrath, New York Times, "No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say," 16 Jan. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'unrelieved.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for unrelieved
unrelieved
adjective
English Language Learners Definition of unrelieved
of something unpleasant
: continuing without stopping or changing
: not including anything that provides a desirable change
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