From relent + -less.
relentless (comparative more relentless, superlative most relentless)
- Unrelenting or unyielding in severity.
1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 111:She sniffed, too, comprehendingly, and fixed her son with a relentless eye.
- Unremitting, steady and persistent.
unrelenting or unyielding in severity
- Arabic: عَدِيم الشَّفَقَة (ʕadīm aš-šafaqa), قَاسٍ (qāsin)
- Bulgarian: неумоли́м (bg) (neumolím), непрекло́нен (bg) (nepreklónen)
- Catalan: implacable (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 永無止境/永无止境 (zh) (yǒngwúzhǐjìng)
- Czech: neúprosný, nelítostný, nemilosrdný (cs), nesmiřitelný
- Dutch: meedogenloos (nl)
- Finnish: leppymätön (fi), säälimätön (fi), heltymätön
- French: implacable (fr), impitoyable (fr)
- Georgian: დაუცხრომელი (daucxromeli), დაუღალავი (dauɣalavi), ულმობელი (ulmobeli)
- German: unnachgiebig (de), unbarmherzig (de), unnachsichtig, unerbittlich (de)
- Irish: gan staonadh
- Italian: implacabile (it)
- Maori: papahueke
- Polish: nieubłagany (pl), nieugięty (pl), nieustępliwy (pl)
- Portuguese: implacável (pt)
- Romanian: sever (ro)
- Russian: неумоли́мый (ru) (neumolímyj), непрекло́нный (ru) (nepreklónnyj), (merciless) беспоща́дный (ru) (bespoščádnyj), безжа́лостный (ru) (bezžálostnyj)
- Spanish: implacable (es), furioso (es), non relenteciente, despiadado (es)
- Ukrainian: безжа́лісний (uk) (bezžálisnyj), безжа́льний (uk) (bezžálʹnyj)
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unremitting, steady and persistent
- Bulgarian: неотсла́бващ (bg) (neotslábvašt)
- Catalan: inexorable (ca)
- Czech: nepolevující, trvalý (cs) m, vytrvalý (cs) m, neochabujicí, neustálý (cs) m, nepřetržitý (cs) m, nekonečný (cs) m
- Dutch: voortdurend (nl)
- Finnish: periksiantamaton, sinnikäs (fi)
- French: tenace (fr)
- German: unablässig (de), unermüdlich (de)
- Irish: síorleanúnach
- Italian: tenace (it)
- Latin: inexōrābilis
- Maori: āwai, papahueke
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: nådeløs
- Polish: bezustanny (pl)
- Portuguese: inexorável (pt)
- Russian: упо́рный (ru) (upórnyj), неослабева́ющий (ru) (neoslabevájuščij)
- Spanish: inexorable (es), incansable (es), implacable (es), incesante (es), non relenteciente
- Ukrainian: невпи́нний (nevpýnnyj)
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