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Unrelenting and relentless

Is there a little difference between unrelenting and relentless or have they exactly the same meaning?

Thank you in advance.

Veit

  

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Very few words have the same meaning. Regional names for the same animal is an example. A puma is a mountain lion is a cougar.

  • Very few words have the same meaning.
  • Regional names for the same animal is an example.
  • A puma is a mountain lion is a cougar.
  • When you get away from concrete nouns, there are no synonyms.
  • "Relentless" implies manic persistence.
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Very few words have the same meaning. Regional names for the same animal is an example. A puma is a mountain lion is a cougar. When you get away from concrete nouns, there are no synonyms. "Relentless" implies manic persistence. "Unrelenting" implies mere persistence. There are other differences that you should try to derive by study of their dictionary entries, as I would have to do to answer

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