AskDefine | Define unyielding

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unyielding adj
1 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" [syn: bulldog, dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious]
2 refusing to give way or compromise; "unyielding determination"
3 having austere inflexibility; "a flinty manner"; "granitic morality"; "his unyielding mouth and glassy eyes"- Marchette Chute [syn: flinty, granitic]

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  1. Not giving in; not bending; stubborn.

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