unforgiving

Speech parts

1. unforgiving - Adjective

2. unforgiving - Verb

3. unforgiving - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

unwilling or unable to forgive or show mercy

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

stern grim relentless inexorable unrelenting unappeasable stony remorseless prohibitory critical hard severe harsh rigid tight
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Antonyms

forgiving clement version kind easy feeling
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Examples

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured. Yann Martel

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving. David Remnick

I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving. Lisa Kudrow

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy. Björk

Which is the greater wrong? To hurt the unforgiving one, or hurt the one who has forgiven all? Orson Scott Card

Close letter words and terms

unforgiven unforgiveness unforgiver unforgivingly unforgivingness unforgoable