What's the difference between indefatigable and relentless?

Indefatigable


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being fatigued; not readily exhausted; unremitting in labor or effort; untiring; unwearying; not yielding to fatigue; as, indefatigable exertions, perseverance, application.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Byrne's Nursie had the same indefatigable garrulousness, the same sense that she knew all the worst things about her charge – Miranda Richardson's bibulous Queen Elizabeth – so Gloriana and the rest had to indulge her.
  • (2) Richard Overholt issued the first warning signals about the perils of tobacco and served as an indefatigable leader of the antismoking crusade throughout his professional career.
  • (3) Hayley, however, is typically bumptious and indefatigable.
  • (4) Both will be called to explain themselves before parliament's public accounts committee, at the invitation of Margaret Hodge , the indefatigable ringmistress of Westminster proceedings that can often rival an episode of The Apprentice for drama.
  • (5) They allowed Pedro Martínez Losa’s team to take control from the opening minute and, thanks in most part to the indefatigable Carter, Arsenal created all the best chances.
  • (6) Rather than a rags-to-riches fairytale of genius forged in the adversity of extreme poverty, plucked from those limitations by some external talent scout, Campbell's success is celebrated in his home town as the result of hard work and discipline fostered within an upwardly mobile lower middle-class family, headed by an indefatigable father determined to help his son fulfil his own frustrated dreams of being a player.
  • (7) Danny Drinkwater and N’Golo Kanté were indefatigable in midfield.
  • (8) 500 BC about Buddha who in his former life as King Sivi wished to give a part of his body to the first one who asked for it, lies at the root of the success story of the indefatigable Dr Silva of Colombo, who succeeded through the oldest known story about donation of organs to make Sri Lanka the 'world champion' in eye donation.
  • (9) No matter who we’re playing we play three in midfield, we play [Danny] Drinkwater in the middle as a holding player and we play Kanté either side.” While it remains to be seen whether Leicester can keep the indefatigable Kanté, Riyad Mahrez and Jamie Vardy at the club now that the Champions League anthem has been added to the playlist at the King Power Stadium, a clear message has already been transmitted from the dressing room to Walsh about the type of players he seeks to bring in over the summer.
  • (10) Vardy had opened the scoring with a breakaway goal starting from a West Ham corner and set up by the ubiquitous, indefatigable N’Golo Kanté, in the 18th minute, but Bilic’s team had always looked dangerous and, to give Moss his due, several Leicester defenders had been guilty of grappling with opponents at set pieces before the referee decided to punish Wes Morgan and award the first penalty.
  • (11) By the standard of lifelong, indefatigable, and for him courageous dedication to a cause, he deserved the title of Mr Palestine that he held for a whole generation of his people's struggle.
  • (12) Their attitude could be summed up by Joe Ledley’s indefatigable performance in midfield, back in the starting lineup only 40 days after breaking his leg.
  • (13) Murray has a phalanx of female supporters now, including Mauresmo, his mother – the indefatigable Judy Murray – and his fiancee, Kim Sears.
  • (14) 2.13pm BST Another dispatch from the indefatigable Rebecca Ratcliffe: Sara Raybould, director of the London College of Music, mentioned in an earlier post that mature candidates are using clearing as an opportunity to make a last-minute application to university.
  • (15) If you lived in the north-west at any time after 1973, it was impossible to ignore the indefatigable broadcaster, music mogul, social activist, proud northerner, football fan, writer and exhibitionist Tony Wilson, who has died aged 57 of a heart attack after being diagnosed with cancer earlier this year.
  • (16) Beckerman remained indefatigable throughout (though I could forgive him for never wanting to see this particular Guardian writer again …) – at the end of that penalty shootout he immediately turned without pause for a moment of self-pity, as he strode to applaud the traveling RSL fans shivering in sub-zero temperatures.
  • (17) These indefatigable researchers designed and built a number of tonometers of which most have been saved and which are now on display in a permanent exhibition in the Royal Netherlands Ophthalmic Hospital at Utrecht.
  • (18) An indefatigable globetrotter, Briggs was an especially enthusiastic visitor to China in the 1960s, when the country was convulsed by Mao’s bloody and chaotic Cultural Revolution.
  • (19) A source of enduring irritation to him – and to his indefatigable literary agent Mic Cheetham, who became a beloved friend – was the tendency of some critics who admired his mainstream work to treat his SF as a potboiling sideline best passed over in silence, like some embarrassing and disreputable, but otherwise harmless quirk.
  • (20) Santi Cazorla’s performance, combining high skill and indefatigable running, could have been set to music and, in the process, he and his team-mates blew a gaping hole in City’s aspirations of making it three titles in four seasons.

Relentless


Definition:

  • (a.) Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to the distresses of others; destitute of tenderness; unrelenting; unyielding; unpitying; as, a prey to relentless despotism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That is why you will be held relentlessly to account for those choices; why what you said in February invites forensic scrutiny.
  • (2) The history of events at the end of 2010, from the moment on 4 November when Cable called in the regulators, shows how relentlessly James Murdoch and his PR man Frédéric Michel lobbied and berated the politicians who were trying to stand in their way.
  • (3) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
  • (4) Los Angeles were relentless in their vicious pursuit of a game-tying goal on Wednesday, bidding to send Game 4 into overtime.
  • (5) While none of the fears that have rattled markets are yet realised, the relentless focus on possible risks will likely see another soggy Asia-Pacific trading session.
  • (6) But when he decided to teach you a lesson, he was relentless, and he took no prisoners.
  • (7) A handful of the global superstars – Usain Bolt and now Mo Farah – have enhanced their personal value, but most have driven themselves relentlessly for the glory alone.
  • (8) The pressure from Fulham became relentless and in the 66th minute West Ham's defences burst.
  • (9) The last few months have seen the former secretary of state dogged by a relentless focus over her use of a private email server , dipping favorabillity numbers and the rise of Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator who is challenging her for the Democratic party’s nomination.
  • (10) The competition has dozens of star players, almost all the most famous managers, and creates enough drama to feed a relentless media appetite.
  • (11) The story of the past 30 years has been the relentless hollowing-out of industrial Britain, the single biggest change to the British economy in the postwar era.
  • (12) Medication, splintage, and physiotherapy are useful in helping to suppress and reduce the effects of the disease, but in some patients arthritis attacks in acute episodes, while in others arthritis chronically and relentlessly pursues its destructive course.
  • (13) Each sentence seems more absurd than the last until you are finally and irredeemably overwhelmed by its relentless meaningful meaninglessness.
  • (14) In language eerily familiar to student politicians across the land, Abetz continued: “The new managing director will inherit an unbalanced and largely centralised public broadcaster which has become a protection racket for the left ideology.” For decades the highly trusted public broadcaster has weathered a relentless stream of attacks by the crusaders of the (increasingly) hard right in Australia.
  • (15) He’s extra confident in my ability to get forward and to develop as a player.” Of his role under the German, Clyne says: “I’ll say definitely pressing on the front foot, setting the trap for the opposition team, and getting more forward on the pitch, and [being] solid defensively as well.” Despite a near-perfect performance when Liverpool handed Manchester City a lesson in high pressing and relentless energy during their 4-1 victory at the Etihad Stadium on 21 November, Klopp never stopped shouting on the touchline.
  • (16) It doesn't look like that, of course, when the doctor's surgery starts putting up signs in Polish, or your child can't get in to the nearest primary school, and the trajectory of the jobless figures seems relentlessly upwards – even when it is not.
  • (17) Joanne Segars, NAPF's chief executive, said: "The pressures on final-salary pensions are relentless and their rate of decline seems to be shifting into a new gear.
  • (18) The movement has been relentlessly promoted by Fox News, which belongs to a more familiar billionaire.
  • (19) This report demonstrates that it’s time we applied the same relentless focus on transparency and results to funding to the private sector,” he said.
  • (20) Right-to-work advocates are relentless, he indicates: “We have seen a literal campaign from the other side sprout up in the early summer: ‘Don’t forget to leave the union.’” He calls the 5,000 members who have jumped ship “not a tremendous loss” in the context of current workers.