Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: unyielding
IPA transcription: [ənj'ildɪŋ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: unyielding
    Meaning: resistant to physical force or pressure; "an unyielding head support"
  • Synonyms: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding
    Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
  • As the weapon passed slowly into his heart he even smiled, as if in joy at having found death less dreadful than he had anticipated, and fell heavily on his face, at the feet of the rigid and unyielding form of Uncas.