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unbendingadjective having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in othersthe commanding officer's unbending reserve when dealing with subordinates aloof, antisocial, asocial, buttoned-up, cold, cold-eyed, cool, detached, distant, dry, frosty, offish, remote, standoff, standoffish, unclubbable, unsociable indrawn, introverted, nongregarious, recessive, reclusive, reserved, unsocial, withdrawnmisanthropicapathetic, hard, indifferent, unconcernedclinical, dispassionate, impersonal, professionaldisinterested, incurious, uninterestedreticent, silent, taciturn, uncommunicativediffident, shy, timidcliquey, cliquish, clubbish cordial, friendly, sociable, social, warm boon, clubbable(also clubable), clubby, companionable, convivial, extroverted(also extraverted), gregarious, outgoingcommunicative, expansive, garrulous, talkativeaffable, folksy, genial, gracious, hospitableagreeable, amiable, congenial, kindly, neighborly sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasionthe school's new headmaster is reputed to be an unbending disciplinarian 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, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, 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 unbendingverbpresent participle of unbendto cause to follow a line that is without bends or curlsthe new highway will largely unbend that twisting path that the old road used to follow straightening, uncurling, unkinking uncoiling, unrolling, unwindingdisentangling, untangling, untwining, untwisting bending, crooking, curling, curving arcing, bending, bowing, hooking, roundingentwining, kinking, swirling, turning, twining, twistingcoiling, looping, spiraling(or spiralling), winding ca. 1688 |