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RELENTLESSLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does relentlessly mean?
• RELENTLESSLY (adverb)
The adverb RELENTLESSLY has 1 sense:
1. in a relentless manner
Familiarity information: RELENTLESSLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a relentless manner
Synonyms:
relentlessly; unrelentingly
Context example:
he worked relentlessly
Pertainym:
relentless (never-ceasing)
Context examples
Imagine a place where the weather forecast is always the same: scorching temperatures, relentlessly sunny, and with absolutely zero chance of rain.
(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)
Others demonstrate phenomenal stamina as they relentlessly run down quarry.
(Hound Breed, NCI Thesaurus)
I kept thinking over everything that has been ever since Jonathan came to see me in London, and it all seems like a horrible tragedy, with fate pressing on relentlessly to some destined end.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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