Unyielding
[ʌn'jiːldɪŋ] or [ʌn'jildɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) resistant to physical force or pressure; 'an unyielding head support' .
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Inflexible, constant, steady, resolute, steadfast, stanch, pertinacious, determined.[2]. Stubborn, obstinate, wilful, mulish, headstrong, intractable, perverse, wayward, cantankerous.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Inflexible, unbending, stanch, stiff, determined, obstinate,[See RELUCTANT]
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Definition
adj. not yielding or bending: stiff: obstinate.—adv. Unyiel′dingly.—n. Unyiel′dingness.
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Examples
- To my inexperience we at first appeared on the eve of a civil war; each party was violent, acrimonious, and unyielding. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- My fingers clawed futilely at the unyielding portal, while my eyes sought in vain for a duplicate of the button which had given us ingress. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- For he always kept such a keen attentiveness, concentrated and unyielding in himself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Above all, he was remorseless and unyielding in the pursuit of any object of desire, however lawless. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- All that I had ever seen in him of an unyielding, wilful spirit, I saw in her. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Yet in the small core of the flame was an unyielding anguish of another thing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She lay still, nestling against him, but unyielding. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Yet not unyielding--she was proud and reserved, no more. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She was always ready to forgive if asked to do so; but I seemed to her to be as an obstinate child, and that made her unyielding. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was a moment of suspense, that shook even the resolution of the unyielding friend of man. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- You are too unyielding. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Indeed there may be generally observed in him an unbending, unyielding, brass-bound air, as if he were himself the bassoon of the human orchestra. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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