unyielding
pronunciation
How to pronounce unyielding in British English:
UK [ʌnˈjiːldɪŋ]
How to pronounce unyielding in American English:
US [ʌnˈjiːldɪŋ]
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- Adjective:
- stubbornly unyielding
- refusing to give way or compromise
- having austere inflexibility
Word Origin
- unyielding (adj.)
- 1590s of persons; 1650s, of substances; from un- (1) "not" + yielding (see yield (v.)).
Antonym
Example
- 1. Cano was an unyielding stalinist .
- 2. We trudge through the same cycle of worries with each glance towards the fridge and see that bill stuck there staring back , unyielding .
- 3. Struggle , one side is fighting the unyielding , the other side of it is destiny daunting .
- 4. But the substance of what they say is likely to be just as unyielding .
- 5. The first world war , or the great war as it was known to contemporaries , still exerts an unyielding grip on the consciousness of western europeans , especially the british and the french .