Usually means: Not allowing mistakes or weaknesses.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. unforgiving: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unforgiving: Merriam-Webster
  3. unforgiving: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unforgiving: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. unforgiving: Collins English Dictionary
  6. unforgiving: Vocabulary.com
  7. Unforgiving, unforgiving: Wordnik
  8. unforgiving: Wiktionary
  9. unforgiving: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. unforgiving: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. unforgiving: Dictionary.com
  12. The Unforgiving: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. unforgiving: Rhymezone
  14. unforgiving: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. unforgiving: FreeDictionary.org
  16. unforgiving: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. unforgiving: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. unforgiving: Legal dictionary

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  1. unforgiving: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  Unwilling or unable to forgive or show mercy.
▸ adjective:  (figurative) Having no allowance for weakness.

Similar:
relentless, ungenerous, inexorable, unrelenting, unappeasable, uncharitable, implacable, vengeful, stern, meanspirited, more...

Opposite:
merciful, lenient, compassionate, forgiving

Phrases:
The Unforgiving, Parable of the Unforgiving Servant, unforgiving penance, really unforgiving, more...

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    charcoal,     slate gray,     blood red,     steel blue,     ash gray, more...



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Similar:
relentless, ungenerous, inexorable, unrelenting, unappeasable, uncharitable, implacable, vengeful, stern, meanspirited, more...

Opposite:
merciful, lenient, compassionate, forgiving

Phrases:
The Unforgiving, Parable of the Unforgiving Servant, unforgiving penance, really unforgiving, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     slate gray,     blood red,     steel blue,     ash gray, more...



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