[
UK
/ʌnjˈiːldɪŋ/
]
[ US /ənˈjiɫdɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ənˈjiɫdɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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stubbornly unyielding
men tenacious of opinion
a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it
dogged persistence
the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics
dour determination -
resistant to physical force or pressure
an unyielding head support
How To Use unyielding In A Sentence
- The drive she feels to achieve, Simone says, can be traced directly to the unyielding support she has felt from her family.
- On divorce, contraception, abortion and homosexuality, he was unyielding in his adherence to doctrine.
- In most of his works, he expressed his feelings and unyieldingness through description of things, showing a stirring, majestic character in a sad, bleak tone.
- The authorities proved unyielding on one crucial opposition demand.
- The company, insisting on technology, innovation, unyieldingness and challenging, participate actively to international economy cycle, and contribute to the nation's development.
- They stood there, bodies inclined to the storm in the manner of seamen on sloped decks, unyieldingly looking into each other's eyes. CHAPTER 3
- Even with her vegetation obsession, she was unyielding and did not back down from ridicule or teasing.
- She was stiff, wooden, unyielding as if a stagehand was standing in for the leading lady. BLOOD IS DIRT
- Yet, when put under pressure the apparent unyielding stiffness becomes a lovely springy curve, and it's that which puts pressure on the fish.
- The dignified way in which she battled her brain tumour is a credit to her unyielding character.