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unyielding

Pronunciation:  un'yeeldeeng

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

 

 

 

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