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[ uhn-yeel-ding ] / ʌnˈyil dɪŋ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR unyielding ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveunable to bend or be penetrated under pressure; hard: trees so unyielding that they broke in the harsh north winds. not apt to give way under pressure; inflexible; firm: her unyielding faith. Origin of unyieldingun-1 + yielding OTHER WORDS FROM unyieldingun·yield·ing·ly, adverbun·yield·ing·ness, nounWords nearby unyieldingunwreathe, unwrinkle, unwritten, unwritten constitution, unwritten law, unyielding, unyoke, unzip, unzipped, UO, U. of S. Afr. Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for unyieldingSpader, so intense and riveting last year as Red, has lost some of that unyielding relentlessness. The Blacklist’s Frustrating Fall: Keen’s a Keeper, but Red Regresses|Jason Lynch|November 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST Both insisted Goldwater was scaring away the swing voters Republicans needed with his unyielding conservatism. Barry Goldwater, Father of the Tea Party|Nicolaus Mills|July 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST [Hoffman] was definitely ferocious and unyielding in that movie. My Lunch with Marisa Tomei: The Actress on ‘The Realistic Joneses,’ ‘Girls,’ and de Blasio’s NYC|Marlow Stern|April 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST That standard and his unyielding hold to keeping up those standards made me want to work harder, but I only realized that after. My Lunch with Marisa Tomei: The Actress on ‘The Realistic Joneses,’ ‘Girls,’ and de Blasio’s NYC|Marlow Stern|April 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She wore an apple-green housedress and her graying beehive hairdo was unyielding against the blasts of a chugging air conditioner. What Lee Harvey Oswald’s Mother Told Me|Lloyd Grove|November 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST The king grew angry, but the duke remained firm and unyielding. So tangled and unyielding was the mass that even dynamite had little effect upon it. The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror|Various For a moment their glances met, the woman's hot and angry, the man's cold and unyielding. The Golden Amazons of Venus|John Murray Reynolds The masses of roots are as unyielding as iron, and run twisting through the soil to the distance of sixty yards. Among the Trees at Elmridge|Ella Rodman Church His victim had now become his tyrant; not implacable or vindictive, but firm and unyielding in the discharge of his duty. Brave Old Salt|Oliver Optic
British Dictionary definitions for unyielding
adjectivenot compliant, submissive, or flexiblehis unyielding attitude not pliable or softa firm and unyielding surface Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to unyieldinguncompromising, stubborn, unwavering, adamant, intractable, unrelenting, ruthless, inflexible, hard-nosed, immovable, implacable, determined, rigid, hard-line, staunch, single-minded, relentless, merciless, obstinate, firm |