unrelieved

adjective

un·re·lieved ˌən-ri-ˈlēvd

: not relieved

a grim story unrelieved by humor

: such as

: not given relief : furnished no assistance, remedy, or mitigation

chronic, unrelieved stress/pain

unrelieved poverty

: not including anything that provides a desirable change : monotonous, unvarying

Across that endless, unrelieved grassland came a tumultuous rainstorm …—

James Michener

unrelievedly

ˌən-ri-ˈlē-vəd-lē

adverb

If the past several paragraphs have sounded too unrelievedly negative, I hasten to make partial amends. —

Karen Morin

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Yet, of course, summer days here, even well into July, need not be hours of unrelieved meteorological misery. —

Martin Weil, Washington Post, 6 July 2024 Trump’s approach swung from fawning praise of Chinese President Xi Jinping to unrelieved enmity and pointless name-calling. —

Jessica T. Mathews, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2021 Apart from the performances, which alone make the series worth watching, and the overall authenticity of the production, what to make of these eight hours of nearly unrelieved sadness? —

Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024 Democratic legislative candidates in Virginia leaned heavily on it, as did Beshear, and Ohio was the latest in an unrelieved series of ballot-measure defeats for pro-lifers. —

The Editors, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023 See all Example Sentences for unrelieved