Antonyms for unyieldingun·yield·ing

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1. unyielding

   The headstrong person is not to be stopped in his own course of action, while the obstinate and stubborn is not to be driven to another's way. The headstrong act; the obstinate and stubborn may simply refuse to stir. The most amiable person may be obstinate on some one point; the stubborn person is for the most part habitually so; we speak of obstinate determination, stubborn resistance. Stubborn is the term most frequently applied to the lower animals and inanimate things. Refractory implies more activity of resistance; the stubborn horse balks; the refractory animal plunges, rears, and kicks; metals that resist ordinary processes of reduction are termed refractory. One is obdurate who adheres to his purpose in spite of appeals that would move any tender-hearted or right-minded person. Contumacious refers to a proud and insolent defiance of authority, as of the summons of a court. Pertinacious demand is contrasted with obstinate refusal. The unyielding conduct which we approve we call decided, firm, inflexible, resolute; that which we condemn we are apt to term headstrong, obstinate, stubborn. Compare PERVERSE.

   Antonyms:
   amenable, complaisant, compliant, docile, dutiful, gentle, irresolute, obedient, pliable, pliant, submissive, teachable, tractable, undecided, wavering, yielding

   Synonyms:
   contumacious, decided, determined, dogged, firm, fixed, headstrong, heady, immovable, indomitable, inflexible, intractable, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, persistent, pertinacious, refractory, resolute, resolved, stubborn, unconquerable, unflinching

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1. unyielding

   Synonyms:
   inflexible, unbending, stanch, stiff, determined, obstinate

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyieldingadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   docile, soft

   Synonyms:
   saturnine, relentless, sullen, grim, long, sour, morose, haunting, retentive, dark, moody, tenacious, recollective, dour, coherent, lasting, pertinacious, dogged, glowering, forbidding, unrelenting, glum, persistent

2. unyieldingadjective

   resistant to physical force or pressure

   "an unyielding head support"

   Antonyms:
   soft, docile

   Synonyms:
   persistent, dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious

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1. unyieldingadjective

   Synonyms:
   inflexible, stiff, unbending, incompliant, indomitable, insubmissive, tenacious, unimpressible, impliable, obdurate, intractable, game, resolute

How to use unyielding in a sentence?

1. George Walker Bush:

   The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon

2. Hillary Clinton:

   Joe Biden is Joe Biden and Vice President, like millions of others, I admire Joe Biden devotion to family, Joe Biden grace in grief, Joe Biden grit and determination on behalf of the middle class, and Joe Biden unyielding faith in America's promise.

3. Oliver L. North:

   There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.

4. Christen Kuikoua:

   I embrace the honor of being called black, for within the ebony tapestry of my identity lies a crown of resilience, a testament to the majestic strength that resides within the human spirit. Black is not a mere hue; it is a regal symbol of endurance, a crown we proudly bear upon our heads as a reminder of the indomitable pride and unyielding spirit that define our existence.”

5. Martin Tobias Lithner:

   In the symphony of numbers, each prime plays a distinct, unyielding note, composing a harmony that resonates through the corridors of infinity

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