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unyielding |
Grep of noun unyielding unyieldingness Overview of adj unyielding The adj unyielding has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. bulldog, dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding -- (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") 2. unyielding -- (refusing to give way or compromise; "unyielding determination") 3. flinty, granitic, unyielding -- (having austere inflexibility; "a flinty manner"; "granitic morality"; "his unyielding mouth and glassy eyes"- Marchette Chute) Antonyms of adj unyielding 3 senses of unyielding Sense 1 bulldog, dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding INDIRECT (VIA stubborn) -> docile Sense 2 unyielding INDIRECT (VIA uncompromising) -> compromising, conciliatory, flexible Sense 3 flinty, granitic, unyielding INDIRECT (VIA inflexible) -> flexible Similarity of adj unyielding 3 senses of unyielding Sense 1 bulldog, dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding => stubborn (vs. docile) Sense 2 unyielding => uncompromising (vs. compromising), inflexible Sense 3 flinty, granitic, unyielding => inflexible (vs. flexible) Attributes of adj unyielding Familiarity of adj unyielding unyielding used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count = 3) Grep of adj unyielding unyielding Overview of adj unyielding The adj unyielding has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. bulldog, dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding -- (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") 2. unyielding -- (refusing to give way or compromise; "unyielding determination") 3. flinty, granitic, unyielding -- (having austere inflexibility; "a flinty manner"; "granitic morality"; "his unyielding mouth and glassy eyes"- Marchette Chute)
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