UNABATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unabated mean? 

• UNABATED (adjective)
  The adjective UNABATED has 1 sense:

1. continuing at full strength or intensity

  Familiarity information: UNABATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNABATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Continuing at full strength or intensity

Context example:

the popularity of his books among young people continued unabated

Similar:

intense (possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree)

 Context examples 

And still we lived, and the boat lived, and the wind blew unabated.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

His medicines had failed;—the fever was unabated; and Marianne only more quiet—not more herself—remained in a heavy stupor.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

They continued together with unabated regard however, till the marriage of Miss Campbell, who by that chance, that luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior, engaged the affections of Mr. Dixon, a young man, rich and agreeable, almost as soon as they were acquainted; and was eligibly and happily settled, while Jane Fairfax had yet her bread to earn.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I told him, moreover, that I believed myself mistaken in supposing, as I had done, that your sister was indifferent to him; and as I could easily perceive that his attachment to her was unabated, I felt no doubt of their happiness together.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

After a short pause, however, the subject still continued, and was discussed with unabated eagerness, every one's inclination increasing by the discussion, and a knowledge of the inclination of the rest; and though nothing was settled but that Tom Bertram would prefer a comedy, and his sisters and Henry Crawford a tragedy, and that nothing in the world could be easier than to find a piece which would please them all, the resolution to act something or other seemed so decided as to make Edmund quite uncomfortable.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

My courage and perseverance were invigorated by these scoffing words; I resolved not to fail in my purpose, and calling on Heaven to support me, I continued with unabated fervour to traverse immense deserts, until the ocean appeared at a distance and formed the utmost boundary of the horizon.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)