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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
relentless
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
pressure
▪ Wednesday kept up the relentless pressure after the break and Chris Bart-Williams made it five in the 61st minute.
▪ But friends believe she had had enough of the relentless pressure of the twice-weekly programme.
pursuit
▪ The years of imprisonment; the relentless pursuit by the police official, Javert.
▪ Steve has a track record of not allowing medical adversity to stand in the way of his relentless pursuit of Olympic titles.
▪ This relentless pursuit of growth and increased profit at any cost is questionable.
▪ But more often than not, his relentless pursuit of food leads Rubbish into trouble.
▪ Its most striking features are an intense pre-occupation with weight and shape and a relentless pursuit of thinness.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
relentless population growth
▪ Hugh felt the relentless sun on his back.
▪ Ridge's success is due to a relentless pursuit of perfection.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A culture of isolation and relentless profit pressure had taken its toll.
▪ All around me, the bare walls expanded and converged into a relentless stretch of white.
▪ Each keiretsu has representative companies in all these areas and pursues new growth sectors with relentless enthusiasm.
▪ Her critiques were relentless but revealing.
▪ Its history has a message for evolution: that the existence of any creature is a constant struggle against relentless forces.
▪ The few communications which do receive full attention normally achieve this through a combination of chance, inside information and relentless harrassment.
▪ Uncle Khan was a landlord with a relentless passion for raw, hard numbers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Relentless

Relentless \Re*lent"less\, a. Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to the distresses of others; destitute of tenderness; unrelenting; unyielding; unpitying; as, a prey to relentless despotism.

For this the avenging power employs his darts, . . . Thus will persist, relentless in his ire.
--Dryden. [1913 Webster] -- Re*lent"less*ly, adv. -- Re*lent"less*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
relentless

1590s, from relent + -less. Related: Relentlessly; relentlessness.

Wiktionary
relentless

a. 1 unrelenting or unyielding in severity 2 unremitting, steady and persistent

WordNet
relentless
  1. adj. not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; "grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"; "relentless persecution"; "the stern demands of parenthood" [syn: grim, inexorable, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting]

  2. never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the drums" [syn: persistent, unrelenting]

Wikipedia
Relentless (drink)

Relentless is the brand name of an energy drink created in February 2006 by The Coca-Cola Company. The drink has also been the subject of court proceedings for breach of trademark by Relentless Records. In the year ending 2010, sales of the product in the UK increased by 28 percent. After a deal on 14 August 2014 seeing Coca Cola purchase a 16.7% stake in Monster Energy, the ownership of the Relentless brand (along with other Coca Cola Energy brands) was transferred to Monster Energy and Monster Energy's non energy brands transferred to Coca Cola.

Relentless (Bill Hicks album)

Relentless is a live album by stand-up comedian and satirist Bill Hicks. It was his second CD release, and his last one before his death from pancreatic cancer in February 1994.

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Relentless (Jo O'Meara album)

Relentless is the debut album from former S Club 7 lead singer Jo O'Meara and was released two and a half years after the pop outfit split in May 2003. Produced by Brian Rawling ( Cher, Enrique Iglesias) and co-written by O'Meara, the album is a mix of contemporary pop, disco and soulful ballads.

The album was released in late 2005, entering at 49 on the UK Albums Chart.

Relentless (Jackyl album)

Relentless is the fifth studio album from Jackyl. It is the first album to feature the new personnel line-up.

Relentless (Sick of It All song)

Relentless is a three track CD and 7" single from New York hardcore punk band, Sick Of It All. It was released in July, 2003 on Bridge Nine Records and contains two previously unreleased tracks from the recording sessions of Life on the Ropes. All three songs were written by Sick Of It All.

Relentless (Mortification album)

Relentless is the tenth studio album by the Australian Christian metal band Mortification.

Relentless (Natalie Grant album)

Relentless is the second album and seventh release by Christian singer Natalie Grant. It was released February 12, 2008. Four singles have been released from the album: "In Better Hands", "I Will Not Be Moved", "Perfect People", and "Our Hope Endures".

Relentless (1989 film)

Relentless is a 1989 American crime film directed by William Lustig and starring Judd Nelson, Robert Loggia and Leo Rossi. The film follows two LAPD officers on a hunt for a serial killer.

Relentless was the first in a series of four films starring Leo Rossi as detective Sam Dietz trying to stop a serial killer. The three sequels were all filmed and released within three consecutive years from 1992 to 1994.

Relentless (Jason Aldean album)

Relentless is the second studio album by American country music artist Jason Aldean. It was released on May 29, 2007 via Broken Bow Records. The album debuted at number 4 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and at number one on the Top Country Albums chart, selling about 98,000 copies in its first week. On October 4 of the same year, the album was certified gold by the RIAA. It was certified platinum in September 2012.

Relentless has produced three chart singles for Aldean on the Hot Country Songs charts. The lead-off single " Johnny Cash" (originally recorded by Tracy Byrd on his 2004 album Greatest Hits) and " Laughed Until We Cried" both reached No. 6 on that chart, and the title track reached No. 15 in late 2008.

Relentless (Kernick novel)

Relentless is Simon Kernick's fifth thriller and crime novel originally published in June 2006. Its sales were helped by the book being one of Richard & Judy's Summer Book Club recommendations in 2007. It was the 8th best-selling paperback, and the best-selling thriller in the UK in the same year. It has sold over 300,000 copies and was the 4th most borrowed book from UK libraries in 2008. The Guardian summed up its review of the book with "pretty much unputdownable".

A review in The Times called it "a fine performance" with "down-to-earth realism" but marred by a parallel with an English football match during a date and time when there would be no games in real life. A review in The Independent wrote "this is probably Kernick's best novel yet". Reviews from readers are considerably less uniform. Criticisms include implausible plot elements, poor research, shallow characterisation and gratuitous violence/swearing.

Relentless (Jason Aldean song)

"Relentless" is a song written by James LeBlanc and John Paul White and recorded by American country music artist Jason Aldean. It was released in May 2008 as the third and final single from his 2007 album of the same name. The song peaked at number 15 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs in late 2008.

Relentless (Koontz novel)

Relentless is a 2009 suspense thriller from The New York Times #1 best selling author, Dean Koontz. The story follows the plight of best selling author Cullen "Cubby" Greenwich, his wife, son, and family dog, Lassie, who are being stalked and hunted by a feared and revered national book critic, Shearman Waxx. The novel was released in the US on June 9, 2009 by Bantam Books.

Relentless (For the Fallen Dreams album)

Relentless is the second full-length album by metalcore band For the Fallen Dreams and the first album to feature vocalist, Dylan Richter. The album was released on July 21, 2009, and charted at number 29 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart. This is the last album by For The Fallen Dreams to feature founding member and principal songwriter Andrew Tkaczyk before his departure from the band in February 2011.

Relentless (Yngwie Malmsteen album)

Relentless is the eighteenth studio album by guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, released on November 23, 2010, through his independent label Rising Force Records. It is his second album with ex- Judas Priest and ex- Iced Earth singer Tim "Ripper" Owens, after 2008's Perpetual Flame.

Relentless (2010 film)

Relentless is a 2010 Nigerian drama film, co-produced and directed by Andy Amadi Okoroafor; it stars Gideon Okeke, Nneka Egbuna, Jimmy Jean-Louis and Tope Oshin Ogun. It was released on 13 October 2010 at the BFI London Film Festival, and was positively received; mostly praised for its cinematography and soundtrack.

The film which is set in Freetown and Lagos, narrates the story of Obi (Gideon Okeke), a Nigerian peacekeeping soldier who has been deployed to war-torn Sierra Leone. Obi's world is crushed after Blessing, a Sierra Leonean woman whom Obi loves, is mutilated by a gang of child soldiers and he's forced to kill her in order to put her out of pain and misery. He eventually returns to Lagos after the war, and tries to reintegrate himself into his community; in the process, he finds solace in the arms of a prostitute, Honey (Nneka Egbuna) who may help him forget his haunting past and lead him to self-discovery.

Relentless (1948 film)

Relentless is a 1948 Western film directed by George Sherman and starring Robert Young and Marguerite Chapman in the main roles. It grossed $1.6 million in North American rentals. The film was based on the 1937 novel Three Were Thoroughbreds by Kenneth Taylor Perkins which was also used for the 1953 Audie Murphy film Tumbleweed

Usage examples of "relentless".

Bit by bit, loosened molecule by loosened molecule, in accordance with the patient, relentless laws of chemistry, the sinew slowly dissolved, weakening the bond which held the compressed, contorted, sharpened baleen, until the slender bond broke.

Zesen and Birken reviled the late Opitz, whose rules were termed relentless fences and whose images were disparaged as colorless.

Those cities, then, were long the destinations of the treasure-fleet, and accordingly it is at Bonanza that the Viceroy, at the beginning of his reign, laid the cornerstone of a palace to receive the proceeds of his relentless, corrupt, and gluttonous pillagings.

The Bunraku puppeteers seemed to be crowding around me, somber and patient, but relentless.

He never got tired either, in his relentless tour of the deodorized facilities.

The days are cooler this week, a brief ebbing of the relentless summer.

I saw water flooding the Delta where I was born, the water not fast but relentless, unstoppable, rising as steeply as any Huevos Verdes curve of social breakdown.

Tolland some slack, but the katabatic pulled on with relentless uniformity.

Though aching of foot and heart, Laure kept to the relentless pace, determined not to slow him by petition.

The storm had burnt itself out and the wind had fallen, but the louring sky shed little light and the rain still descended with a relentless malevolence.

Coaxed and cajoled with relentless enthusiasm by her niece, Pru finally agreed that she and Nicholas would join them.

Of course, Myrna was only a girl, and two years younger than Steven, but she was, or at least might be, his sovereign, and beside, she had been in a space action, if you call what lies between a planet and its satellite space and if you call being shot at without being able to shoot back an action, and Relentless Ravary, the Interstellar Terror, had not.

The parasites tried to hide or run from the white light of his healing spirit, but he was relentless, ridding her body of every single one, taking more time than they comfortably had to ensure her bloodstream and her every cell were free of the microorganisms.

The Rix ore cool, relentless fanatics, and their only goal is to propagate such AIs throughout the galaxy.

The front door was faded by the relentless sun, and in places the clapboards were peeling back, the nails rusting and coming loose.