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UNFORGIVING

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Dictionary entry overview: What does unforgiving mean?

• UNFORGIVING (adjective)
The adjective UNFORGIVING has 2 senses:

1. unwilling or unable to forgive or show mercy
2. not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

Familiarity information: UNFORGIVING used as an adjective is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• UNFORGIVING (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Unwilling or unable to forgive or show mercy

Context example:

a surly unforgiving old woman

Similar:

revengeful; vengeful; vindictive (disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge)

Antonym:

forgiving (inclined or able to forgive and show mercy)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

Synonyms:

grim; inexorable; relentless; unappeasable; unrelenting; stern; unforgiving

Context examples:

grim determination / grim necessity / Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty / relentless persecution / the stern demands of parenthood

Similar:

implacable (incapable of being placated)

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