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unyieldingadjective showing no signs of slackening or yielding in one's purposethe pioneers faced the challenge of settling the frontier with unyielding courage determined, dogged, grim, implacable, relentless, unappeasable, unflinching, unrelenting persevering, persistent, tenacioushard, hardheaded, headstrong, intractable, mulish, obdurate, opinionated, peevish, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-willed, stubborn, uncooperative, willful(or wilful)merciless, ruthless, unforgiving slackening, softening, yieldingimpotent, invertebrate, slack, spineless, weakcomplaisant, obliging, pliable, pliant having a consistency that does not easily yield to pressureknead the dough until it feels reasonably unyielding compact, firm, hard, rigid, solid, stiff case-hardened, compacted, compressed, hardened, indurated, stiffened, temperedclose, dense, heavy, thick, thicksetinelastic, inflexible, ramrod, unbendingcompressed, condensedadamantine, rocklikesturdy, substantialimpenetrable, impermeable, nonporous flabby, soft, spongy, squashy, squishy loose, scattered, thinbendable, elastic, flexible, malleable, pliable, pliant, suppledroopy, flaccid, floppy, lank, limp, slackairy, lightpermeable, porousultrasoft incapable of or highly resistant to bendingan unyielding steel bar inflexible, rigid, stiff, stiffened inelasticfirm, hard, solid, sound, strongbrittle, crispcompact, dense, substantialarthritic, rheumaticnonelastic, nonmalleable flexible, floppy, pliable, pliant, supple, yielding elastic, resilient, springy, stretchy, workablemalleable, plasticsemiflexibledroopy, flabby, flaccid, mushy, semisoft, soft, squashy, squishylank, limber, limp, lissome(also lissom), lithe, lithesome, willowy sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasiondespite studies showing that limits on development would hurt the local economy, the town council remained unyielding in their support for these limits adamant, adamantine, bullheaded, dogged, hard, hard-nosed, hardened, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inconvincible, inflexible, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ossified, pat, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff-necked, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, willful(or wilful) anal-retentive, obsessivewayward, wrongheadeddetermined, hell-bent, inexorable, persistent, relentless, resolved, set, single-minded, steadfast, stouthearted, tenacious, unflinchingfirm, hard-line, hard-shell(or hard-shelled), iron, severe, stern, stricthidebound, narrow-minded, rigidbloody-minded(chiefly British), cantankerouscontrary, cussedcontumacious, disobedient, froward, insubordinate, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory, uncooperative, ungovernable, unmanageable, unrulydefiant, insurgent, mutinousindomitable, invincible, unconquerableconfirmed, inveterate, unregeneratedemanding, exacting deaf to reason acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, flexible, pliable, pliant, relenting, yielding docile, obedient, placable, submissive, tractableaccepting, persuadable, receptive, responsive, willinggovernable, manageable, reasonable, temperateslavish, subservient in 1565 |