Synonyms for unyielding
un·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.

   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

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

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1. unyielding

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

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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"

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

   Antonyms:
   docile, soft

2. unyieldingadjective

   resistant to physical force or pressure

   "an unyielding head support"

   Synonyms:
   persistent, dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious

   Antonyms:
   soft, docile

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1. unsurrendered

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1. unyieldingadjective

   Synonyms:
   inflexible, constant, steady, resolute, steadfast, stanch, pertinacious, determined

2. unyieldingadjective

   Synonyms:
   stubborn, obstinate, wilful, mulish, headstrong, intractable, perverse, wayward, cantankerous

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1. unyieldingadjective

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "unyielding":

   inflexible, unwavering, indomitable, unshakeable, uncompromising, rigid

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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. Aloo Denish Obiero:

   Truth walks the fine line between what is said and what is silenced, unyielding in its patience to be found.

3. Dev Parth:

   Pain is the fire that tempers my resolve. Each scar is a testament to the unyielding strength within me.

4. 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

5. 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.