adjective
- Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty.
- usage: "grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"; "relentless persecution"; "the stern demands of parenthood"
- synonyms: grim, inexorable, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting
- Never-ceasing.
- usage: "the relentless beat of the drums"
- synonyms: persistent, unrelenting
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