 2 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
unyielding
adjective
1: stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour
determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of
all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth
but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious
of opinion" [syn: {bulldog}, {dogged}, {dour}, {pertinacious},
{tenacious}]
2: refusing to give way or compromise; "unyielding
determination"
3: having austere inflexibility; "a flinty manner"; "granitic
morality"; "his unyielding mouth and glassy eyes"-
Marchette Chute [syn: {flinty}, {granitic}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
225 Moby Thesaurus words for "unyielding":
adamant, adamantine, at a standstill, bowelless, bulky, bullheaded,
cast-iron, certain, closed to, complaining, constant, cruel, dense,
disputatious, disputing, dissentient, dissenting, dog-eat-dog,
dour, durable, enduring, fated, fateful, firm, fixed, flinty,
fractious, frozen, fundamentalist, grim, hard, hard-core,
hard-line, harsh, headstrong, heartless, heavy, hidebound,
immobile, immotile, immotive, immovable, immutable, impenetrable,
impersuadable, impersuasible, impervious, implacable, impliable,
impregnable, inclement, incontestable, indefeasible, indomitable,
inductile, inelastic, ineluctable, inescapable, inevasible,
inevitable, inexorable, inexpugnable, inextensible, inextensile,
inextensional, inflexible, insuperable, intractable, intractile,
intransigent, invincible, inviolable, invulnerable, iron,
ironbound, ironclad, ironfisted, ironhanded, irreconcilable,
irremovable, irresilient, irresistible, irrevocable, lasting,
loyal, massive, merciless, mortal, mulish, muscle-bound, necessary,
noncooperative, nonelastic, nonstretchable, obdurate, objecting,
obstinate, obstructive, on the barricades, orthodox, overpowering,
overwhelming, pat, pertinacious, pigheaded, pitiless, procrustean,
proof against, protesting, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic,
rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, relentless, reluctant,
remorseless, renitent, repellent, resistant, resisting, resistive,
resistless, retardant, retardative, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic,
rigorous, rock-ribbed, rockbound, rugged, ruthless, self-willed,
set, settled, single-minded, solid, sot, sound, stable, standpat,
stationary, staunch, steadfast, steady, steely, stern, stiff,
stout, straightlaced, straitlaced, strong, stubborn, sturdy, sure,
sure as death, sure as fate, tough, true, unaffected, unalterable,
unamenable, unappeasable, unassailable, unavoidable, unbeatable,
unbending, unchangeable, uncompassionate, uncompassioned,
uncompliant, uncompromising, unconquerable, uncontrollable,
uncooperative, undeflectable, unextendible, unextensible,
unfeeling, unflappable, unflexible, unflinching, unforgiving,
ungiving, unimpressionable, uninfluenceable, unlimber, unmalleable,
unmerciful, unmovable, unmoved, unmoving, unpersuadable, unpitiful,
unpitying, unpliable, unpliant, unpreventable, unreceptive,
unrelenting, unremorseful, unresponsive, unshaken, unstoppable,
unsubduable, unsubmissive, unsuggestible, unsurmountable,
unsusceptible, unswayable, unswerving, unsympathetic,
unsympathizing, untractable, up in arms, well-built,
well-constructed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made,
without mercy, withstanding
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