unforgiving

Unforgiving means that you are not willing to forgive someone. If someone is unforgiving, they are likely to hold a grudge against that person and to never forgive them.

  • The unforgiving person will never forgive the other person for what happened.

  • The unforgiving person is always angry and bitter.

Definition of unforgiving

adjective

not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

Synonyms:

grim, inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unrelenting

adjective

unwilling or unable to forgive or show mercy

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Example Sentences for unforgiving

  • 1

    The land is frigid and unforgiving.

  • 2

    She is totally unforgiving of misunderstandings.

  • 3

    He is tough, unforgiving and unyielding.

  • 4

    Hypocrisy, insincerity and deception are unforgivable.

  • 5

    The people can be very unforgiving.

  • 6

    Electricity is totally unforgiving of naivete or misunderstandings.

  • 7

    The film adheres to an unforgiving neorealist aesthetic.

  • 8

    Brady's mother is on the other hand very unforgiving.

  • 9

    Homer is blamed and pelted with vegetables by the unforgiving townspeople.

  • 10

    Others also find the 5 pillars to be constricting and unforgiving.