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unyieldingadjective(NOT CHANGING)completelyunwillingtochangeadecision,opinion,demand, etc.: 坚定的；不屈服的；固执的Korea is unyielding initsdemandsfor a newtreaty.朝鲜坚决要求签订新的条约。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesStrong-willed - adamant
- adamantine
- adamantly
- aggressive
- aggressively
- go-getting
- going
- gutsy
- hard-boiled
- hard-headed
- pigheadedly
- purposeful
- purposefully
- pushy
- recalcitrant
- ultra-serious
- unbending
- undaunted
- unrelenting
- unrelentingly
See more results » unyieldingadjective(NOT BENDING)rigid(= notableto bebentormoved) 坚挺的，不易弯曲的SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesHard and firm - (as) stiff/straight as a ramrodidiom
- adamantine
- cast iron
- congealed
- crisp
- crisply
- erect
- firmness
- fossilized
- harden
- hardening
- hardness
- horny
- rigid
- rigidity
- rock-hard
- rock-solid
- stiff
- stiffly
- tense
See more results » unyielding| American Dictionarynot giving upcontrolorresponsibilityfor (something) as aresultofinfluenceorpersuasion: Theeconomistshowedan unyieldingcommitmenttotoughfinancialstability. Examplesofunyieldingunyielding Other evils, especially those fashioned by human hands, demand our condemnation,unyieldingopposition, and vigorous efforts at prevention and reparation.From theCambridge English Corpus Loanwords are also evidence of how speech communities interacted with a physical environment that was ancient to some, unfamiliar to others, andunyieldingto all.From theCambridge English Corpus They should simply go on organising the masses, pressing for social reform, and remain true to theirunyieldingopposition.From theCambridge English Corpus Although these antagonisms were real enough, they were not necessarily, in contrast to existing historical interpretations, of an enduring andunyieldingnature.From theCambridge English Corpus There is, perhaps, useful corrective in this perspective to the polemical overkill which characterises the" totalitarian" school at its mostunyielding.From theCambridge English Corpus Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation ofunyieldingdespair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built.From theCambridge English Corpus In neither case would it be fair to infer that anunyieldingposture belies moral rigidity.From theCambridge English Corpus The soft, sinuous sofa rebuked the straight,unyielding, noisy gadgets of the machine age.From theCambridge English Corpus Our mouths shut, we mingle with the robust men of our country for e more than ten years, always nourishing in our hearts, anunyieldinghatred.From theCambridge English Corpus His spirit isunyielding, autocratic and cruel.From theCambridge English Corpus Smaller employers, unable to control prices and production and squeezed between the corporations and the union shop threat, reacted with a virulent andunyieldingantiunion counterattack.From theCambridge English Corpus The nylon stocking was still suspended from a constricting girdle ofunyieldingfirmness, a fortification virtually impossible to bypass without active collusion, and preferably plenty of time.From theCambridge English Corpus While it may well have been markedly flexible over the depression years as a whole, in the final weeks before that eruption-with rice prices plummeting-it was strict andunyielding.From theCambridge English Corpus They describe the experience of caring for the delirious patient as a process of striving for a balance: trying to deal with unanticipated patient conditions andunyieldingworkloads.From theCambridge English Corpus Though physicians'unyieldingdefense of their autonomy colors their response to many events,5 no one issue captures this ethic more than medicine's opposition to health insurance.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |