Text: 1 showing no signs of slackening or yielding in one's purpose <the pioneers faced the challenge of settling the frontier with unyielding courage> Synonymsdetermined, dogged, grim, implacable, relentless, unappeasable, unflinching, unrelenting Related Wordshardheaded, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, opinionated, peevish, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-willed, stubborn, uncooperative, willful (or wilful); merciless, ruthless, unforgiving Near Antonymsslackening, softening, yielding; impotent, invertebrate, slack, spineless, weak 2 having a consistency that does not easily yield to pressure <knead the dough until it feels reasonably unyielding> — see firm 2 3 incapable of or highly resistant to bending <an unyielding steel bar> — see stiff 1 4 sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion <my parents remained unyielding to my pleas for clemency, and I remained at home for the entire weekend> — see obstinate

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