TIRELESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tireless mean? 

• TIRELESS (adjective)
  The adjective TIRELESS has 2 senses:

1. showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality

2. characterized by hard work and perseverance

  Familiarity information: TIRELESS used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIRELESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality

Synonyms:

indefatigable; tireless; unflagging; unwearying

Context example:

unflagging pursuit of excellence

Similar:

energetic (possessing or exerting or displaying energy)

Derivation:

tirelessness (tireless determination)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Characterized by hard work and perseverance

Synonyms:

hardworking; industrious; tireless; untiring

Similar:

diligent (characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks)

Derivation:

tirelessness (tireless determination)

 Context examples 

The Professor seems tireless; all day he would not take any rest, though he made me sleep for a long spell.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Day and night she brooded over them with tireless devotion and anxiety, leaving John to the tender mercies of the help, for an Irish lady now presided over the kitchen department.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Day and night the ship throbbed to the tireless pulse of the propeller, and though one day was very like another, it was apparent to Buck that the weather was steadily growing colder.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Nevertheless, with the exception of the ones that limped, the movements of the animals were effortless and tireless.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Her jet-black hair was gathered back under a light pink coif, her head poised proudly upon her neck, and her step long and springy, like that of some wild, tireless woodland creature.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Riding along on the train, near to the line between California and Oregon, he chanced to look out of the window and saw his unsociable guest sliding along the wagon road, brown and wolfish, tired yet tireless, dust-covered and soiled with two hundred miles of travel.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The down-coming winter was harrying them on to the lower levels, and it seemed they could never shake off this tireless creature that held them back.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

His was the gait of the wolf, smooth, tireless and effortless, and at the end of fifty miles he would come in jauntily ahead of the horse.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

There is a patience of the wild—dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself—that holds motionless for endless hours the spider in its web, the snake in its coils, the panther in its ambuscade; this patience belongs peculiarly to life when it hunts its living food; and it belonged to Buck as he clung to the flank of the herd, retarding its march, irritating the young bulls, worrying the cows with their half-grown calves, and driving the wounded bull mad with helpless rage.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)