unflagging

English

Etymology

un- +‎ flagging

Pronunciation

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Adjective

unflagging (comparative more unflagging, superlative most unflagging)

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

   His unflagging efforts have not gone unnoticed.

   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 122:

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

   • 2008, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell; Susan Schultz Huxman, The Rhetorical Act: Thinking, Speaking and Writing Critically‎^[1], page 265:

     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.

Synonyms

• inexhaustible, tireless, untiring, unwearying, indefatigable

Translations

never seeming to tire, always seeming to have energy to do things

• Maori: pikoni, pūtohe

• Romanian: neobosit (ro)