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Unyielding

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Adjective

1. dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding

stubbornly unyielding

Example Sentences:
'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'
'men tenacious of opinion'

2. unyielding

resistant to physical force or pressure

Example Sentences:
'an unyielding head support'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Unyielding

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adjective
1. 
not compliant, submissive, or flexible
his unyielding attitude
2. 
not pliable or soft
a firm and unyielding surface

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Unyielding

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adj.
1. Not giving way to pressure; hard or inflexible: "She lay on the unyielding concrete of the steps" (T. Coraghessan Boyle).
2. Incapable of being changed; unalterable: "the unyielding grip of war" (James Carroll).
3. Not willing to change or be persuaded; resolute: an unyielding champion of civil rights.

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