unforgiving (redirected from unforgivingness)

un·for·giv·ing  (nfr-gvng)

adj.

1. Reluctant or refusing to forgive: an unforgiving creditor.

2. Providing little or no opportunity to forestall undesired results or mistakes: an unforgiving computer program.

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unforgiving

Adjective

1. unwilling to forgive other people's mistakes or wrongdoings

2. (of a machine) allowing little or no opportunity for mistakes to be corrected

3. harsh: an unforgiving and desolate landscape

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	unforgiving - unwilling or unable to forgive or show mercy; "a surly unforgiving old woman" forgiving - inclined or able to forgive and show mercy; "a kindly forgiving nature"; "a forgiving embrace to the naughty child"
	2.	unforgiving - not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; "grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"; "relentless persecution"; "the stern demands of parenthood" grim, inexorable, relentless, unappeasable, unrelenting, stern implacable - incapable of being placated; "an implacable enemy"