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Definition of Tireless
1. Adjective. Showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality. "Unflagging pursuit of excellence"
Similar to: Energetic
Derivative terms: Indefatigability, Indefatigableness, Tirelessness
2. Adjective. Characterized by hard work and perseverance.
Similar to: Diligent
Derivative terms: Industriousness, Industry, Tirelessness
Definition of Tireless
1. a. Untiring.
Definition of Tireless
1. Adjective. Indefatigable, untiring and not yielding to fatigue ¹
2. Adjective. Without a tire (wheel covering); tyreless. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tireless
1. seemingly incapable of tiring [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tireless
Literary usage of Tireless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"To me, however, it resembles rather a beleaguered fortress, before whose gates
a tireless foe is constantly at work, now undermining secretly its massive ..."
2. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"To me, however, it resembles rather a beleaguered fortress, before whose gates
a tireless foe is constantly at work, now undermining secretly its massive ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... contentment, and tireless labour; it was made un of teaching engraving to his
son and his two brothers und working on his own plates. ..."
4. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"TIME, tireless TRAMP All selections are from 'Apollo and Keats on Browning, and
Other Poemi.' Used here by permission of Mrs. Clifford Lanier. ..."
5. Lectures, Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"... undermining secretly its massive dikes, now charging furiously on the rescued
soil, as if determined to reclaim its own. The HOLLAND S tireless ALLV. ..."
6. Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman by Frances Elizabeth Willard (1889)
"... THE tireless TRAVELER. EARLY JOURNEYINGS. One lonesome day in early spring,
gray with fog and moist with rain, a Sunday at that, and a Puritan Sunday in ..."
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