unflagging

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adjective

Never tiring or lacking energy; without rest; without slowing.

“His unflagging efforts have not gone unnoticed.”

UncommonScrabble 16

Meanings

adjectiveunflagging (comparative more unflagging, superlative most unflagging)

comparative more unflagging · superlative most unflagging

  1. Never tiring or lacking energy; without rest; without slowing.

    His unflagging efforts have not gone unnoticed.

    4 more examples

    He went on kissing her with unflagging industry, while she remained limply in his arms, in a species of satisfied trance.

    1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 122

    He writes of locomotive design, maintenance, passenger timetables, the structure of freight services, supervision and organisation, with unflagging enthusiasm, which comes across to us in a most readable book.

    1959 May, “New Reading on Railways: British Railways Today and Tomorrow. By G. Freeman Allen. Ian Allan. 25s.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 271

    The 2001 photo was strangely and powerfully similar to the World War II flag raising because both photos captured a heroic deed of courage, grit, teamwork, and unflagging patriotism at a historic moment marked by the darkness of the threat against us.

    2008, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell with Susan Schultz Huxman, The Rhetorical Act: Thinking, Speaking and Writing Critically, page 265

    His words mattered. He pledged “our unwavering and unflagging commitment to Ukraine’s democracy, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.”

    2023 February 20, Eliot A. Cohen, quoting Joe Biden, “Biden Just Destroyed Putin’s Last Hope”, in The Atlantic

    Synonyms: inexhaustible, tireless, untiring, unwearying, indefatigable

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveNever tiring or lacking energy; without rest; without slowing.

More synonyms by meaning

adjectiveshowing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality

adjectivetireless

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishflagging
  9. Englishunflagging

From un- + flagging.

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Translations

Bulgarian неуморен
  • неуморен (neumoren)never seeming to tire, always seeming to have energy to do things
Māori pikoni, pūtohe
  • pikoninever seeming to tire, always seeming to have energy to do things
  • pūtohenever seeming to tire, always seeming to have energy to do things
Romanian neobosit
  • neobositnever seeming to tire, always seeming to have energy to do things
Ukrainian неослабний, невтомний
  • неослабний (neoslabnyj)never seeming to tire, always seeming to have energy to do things
  • невтомний (nevtomnyj)never seeming to tire, always seeming to have energy to do things
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APA

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“unflagging.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unflagging. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unflagging,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unflagging.

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