Unrelievedly

Part of speech: adverb

Definitions

1. Persistently and continuously in a manner that offers no break, lessening, or respite from an oppressive or negative condition
2. in a manner that offers no interruption, mitigation, or pause from an unpleasant or burdensome state
3. without any break, relief, or alleviation from a relentless and oppressive condition

Etymology: "Unrelievedly" is simply "unrelieved" with the adverbial ending "-ly" added to it, and it describes something happening without any let-up. The "un-" is the ordinary English negative prefix, which goes back to Old English and beyond to a Proto-Germanic form, while "relieve" comes into English from Old French, where it meant to raise up or lift again, and it later came to mean lightening a burden or pain. The adverb is built from the adjective "unrelieved," which itself combines the prefix with the past participle of "relieve." The suffix traces back through Proto-Germanic to a word meaning "body" or "form," which in Old English became "-lic" and then "-ly." Put together, the word means something like "in an unrelieved manner," which is why it appears most often with words like "grey," "bleak," or "harsh" to describe weather, mood, or circumstance.

Synonyms: continuously, steadily, consistently, perpetually, persistently