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UNFLAGGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unflagging mean? 

UNFLAGGING (adjective)
  The adjective UNFLAGGING has 2 senses:

1. showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitalityplay

2. unceasingplay

  Familiarity information: UNFLAGGING used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNFLAGGING (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality

Synonyms:

indefatigable; tireless; unflagging; unwearying

Context example:

unflagging pursuit of excellence

Similar:

energetic (possessing or exerting or displaying energy)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Unceasing

Synonyms:

unfailing; unflagging

Context example:

unflagging courtesy

Similar:

constant (steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection)


 Context examples 


In the tractability with which, at my wish, you forsook a study in which you were interested, and adopted another because it interested me; in the untiring assiduity with which you have since persevered in it—in the unflagging energy and unshaken temper with which you have met its difficulties—I acknowledge the complement of the qualities I seek.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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