UNTIRING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does untiring mean? 

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

1. characterized by hard work and perseverance

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNTIRING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by hard work and perseverance

Synonyms:

hardworking; industrious; tireless; untiring

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

Now, I've another errand for you, said my untiring master; you must away to my room again.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Her grandfather often called her 'Beth', and her grandmother watched over her with untiring devotion, as if trying to atone for some past mistake, which no eye but her own could see.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But it takes time to make a raft, even when one is as industrious and untiring as the Tin Woodman, and when night came the work was not done.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Then he was absolutely untiring and indefatigable.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Gorgiano had his private reasons for vengeance, but in any case we knew how ruthless, cunning, and untiring he could be.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were carefully examined, and showed that he was a keen student of international politics, an indefatigable gossip, a remarkable linguist, and an untiring letter writer.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I must do Mr. Micawber the justice to say,” Traddles began, that although he would appear not to have worked to any good account for himself, he is a most untiring man when he works for other people.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I should not shrink from you with disgust as I did from her: in your quiet moments you should have no watcher and no nurse but me; and I could hang over you with untiring tenderness, though you gave me no smile in return; and never weary of gazing into your eyes, though they had no longer a ray of recognition for me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In the tractability with which, at my wish, you forsook a study in which you were interested, and adopted another because it interested me; in the untiring assiduity with which you have since persevered in it—in the unflagging energy and unshaken temper with which you have met its difficulties—I acknowledge the complement of the qualities I seek.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)