Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not tired or tiring: synonym: tireless.
  • adjective Unrelenting or unremitting.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not wearied; not fatigued.
  • Indefatigable; assiduous: as, unwearied perseverance: of persons.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not wearied; not fatigued or tired; hence, persistent; not tiring or wearying; indefatigable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not wearied, not tired.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective with unreduced energy

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Examples

  • Miss Austen speaks of "its high grounds and extensive sweeps of country and its sweet retired bay backed by dark cliffs, where fragments of low rock among the sands make it the happiest spot for watching the flow of the tide, for sitting in unwearied contemplation."

    Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends 1901

  • I could stand up now quite well, and I wandered on till dusk in unwearied admiration.

    The Brownies and Other Tales 1871

  • So constant are they, and so unwearied is he in doing us good, that he daily loads us with them, according as the necessity of every day requires.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

  • They may recall her unwearied patience with the very dullest and most wayward of them; her unfailing sympathy with every infantile pleasure and pain.

    Mistress and Maid. A Household Story. 1864

  • He is described as unwearied in the work, often preaching three times a day during the week, and performing other arduous labors.

    History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. Rufus Anderson 1838

  • “I must beg leave to add, my unwearied endeavours are inadequately rewarded,” he whined.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • “I must beg leave to add, my unwearied endeavours are inadequately rewarded,” he whined.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Young yet, barely thirty-six, eminently handsome, magnificently strong, almost bursting with a splendid virility, his free trail-stride, never learned on pavements, and his black eyes, hinting of great spaces and unwearied with the close perspective of the city dwellers, drew many a curious and wayward feminine glance.

    Chapter I 2010

  • A definite understanding as to sofa cushions and tobacco smoke does not always insure unwearied forbearance and devotion.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • Squirrels, too, whose spicy ardor no heat or cold may abate, were nutting among the pines, and the innumerable hosts of the insect kingdom were throbbing and wavering unwearied as sunbeams.

    John Muir 2010

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