unyielding

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Entry Word: unyielding

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 showing no signs of slackening or yielding in one's purpose <the pioneers faced the challenge of settling the frontier with unyielding courage>

Synonyms determined, dogged, grim, implacable, relentless, unappeasable, unflinching, unrelenting

Related Words hardheaded, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, opinionated, peevish, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-willed, stubborn, uncooperative, willful (or wilful); merciless, ruthless, unforgiving

Near Antonyms slackening, 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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