What is another word for unyielding?
835 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ʌnjˈiːldɪŋ], [ ʌnjˈiːldɪŋ], [ ʌ_n_j_ˈiː_l_d_ɪ_ŋ]Table of Contents
Similar words for unyielding:- all (adjective)
- all-or-nothing (adjective)
- authoritarian (adjective)
- chronic (adjective)
- concrete (adjective)
- contumacious (adjective)
- courageous (adjective)
- decided (adjective)
- difficult (adjective)
- disobedient (adjective)
- dogged (adjective)
- firm (adjective)
- flinty (adjective)
- froward (adjective)
- grim (adjective)
- hard (adjective)
- hard-core (adjective)
- hard-line (adjective)
- hard-nosed/hardheaded (adjective)
- hardheaded (adjective)
- headstrong (adjective)
- immovable (adjective)
- implacable (adjective)
- inalterable (adjective)
- incompliant (adjective)
- incompressible (adjective)
- indocile (adjective)
- inelastic (adjective)
- inexorable (adjective)
- inflexible (adjective)
- insurmountable (adjective)
- intractable (adjective)
- intractable /intransigent (adjective)
- invincible (adjective)
- iron (adjective)
- merciless (adjective)
- obdurate (adjective)
- obstinate (adjective)
- opinionated (adjective)
- ornery (adjective)
- perverse (adjective)
- pig-headed (adjective)
- pitiless (adjective)
- puissant (adjective)
- refractory (adjective)
- relentless (adjective)
- remorseless (adjective)
- resistant (adjective)
- rigid (adjective)
- ruthless (adjective)
- set (adjective)
- solid (adjective)
- steadfast (adjective)
- steadfast, resolute (adjective)
- stern (adjective)
- stiff (adjective)
- strong (adjective)
- strong-willed (adjective)
- sturdy (adjective)
- taut (adjective)
- tight (adjective)
- tough (adjective)
- unbendable (adjective)
- unbending (adjective)
- unbowed (adjective)
- unbreakable (adjective)
- unceasing (adjective)
- uncompliant (adjective)
- unconquerable (adjective)
- unflinching (adjective)
- unrelenting (adjective)
- unruly (adjective)
- untoward (adjective)
- unwilling (adjective)
- wooden (adjective)
- bulldog (noun)
- dour (noun)
- granitic (noun)
- other synonyms
- bigoted
- bony
- discouraging
- indestructible
- stretched
- without end
Synonyms for Unyielding:
adj.
•all (adjective) •all-or-nothing (adjective) •authoritarian (adjective) •chronic (adjective)- deepseated,
- in bred,
- re-current,
- most persisting,
- in grained,
- enduring,
- in curable,
- long standing,
- re curring,
- more unabating,
- un-mitigated,
- in-eradicable,
- in-born,
- pro longed,
- in-grained,
- more ever present,
- more everpresent,
- settled,
- deeprooted,
- stubborn,
- more persisting,
- un abating,
- deep seated,
- long lived,
- most everpresent,
- most ever-present,
- more recurring,
- most recurring,
- longlived,
- pro-longed,
- ever present,
- re-curring,
- most ever present,
- persistent,
- in born,
- everpresent,
- un mitigated,
- more inbred,
- habitual,
- in-bred,
- in eradicable,
- deep rooted,
- in-curable,
- re current,
- un-abating,
- most inbred,
- most unabating,
- more ever-present.
- more concrete,
- most compressed,
- most poured,
- more congealed,
- more consolidated,
- most steeled,
- more calcified,
- more cemented,
- most cemented,
- most precast,
- more steeled,
- Poured,
- most caked,
- most calcified,
- most consolidated,
- most congealed,
- set stone,
- most indurate,
- most solidified,
- more conglomerated,
- more caked,
- more indurate,
- more solidified,
- more precast,
- more poured,
- more compressed,
- most conglomerated,
- pre cast.
- ironjawed,
- most resolved,
- most iron-jawed,
- iron-jawed,
- un wavering,
- un faltering,
- more iron-jawed,
- most ironjawed,
- un-faltering,
- most strongminded,
- in tent,
- more strong-minded,
- re solved,
- most strong minded,
- most strong-minded,
- de-liberate,
- re-solved,
- more ironjawed,
- more strong minded,
- strong minded,
- most iron jawed,
- de liberate,
- un-wavering,
- un-hesitating,
- more strongminded,
- more resolved,
- iron jawed,
- un hesitating,
- strongminded,
- more iron jawed.
- galling,
- upstream,
- painful,
- immense,
- intractable,
- backbreaker,
- Operose,
- easier said than done,
- hard-won,
- strenuous,
- no picnic,
- not easy,
- effortful,
- Difficile,
- up-stream.
- more perseverative,
- staunch,
- single minded,
- un flagging,
- most perseverative,
- un-flagging,
- more perseverant,
- most perseverant,
- un shakable,
- un-shakable.
- more closegrained,
- un changeable,
- un-deviating,
- fine grained,
- close grained,
- more finegrained,
- more close-grained,
- un shaken,
- more nonporous,
- non-porous,
- more never failing,
- most fine-grained,
- more never-failing,
- more stipulated,
- most close grained,
- pre vailing,
- un-shaken,
- most closegrained,
- most fine grained,
- more fine grained,
- ex act,
- more fine-grained,
- never failing,
- neverfailing,
- most neverfailing,
- more close grained,
- un deviating,
- most never failing,
- ex-act,
- non porous,
- un-qualified,
- un-changeable,
- most jelled,
- more undeviating,
- most never-failing,
- most stipulated,
- most nonporous,
- un qualified,
- finegrained,
- more jelled,
- closegrained,
- most close-grained,
- most undeviating,
- most finegrained,
- more neverfailing.
- most splenetic,
- fore boding,
- most crabbed,
- fore-boding,
- more foreboding,
- most scowling,
- more splenetic,
- forbidding,
- grisly,
- more scowling,
- most glowering,
- more glowering,
- most foreboding,
- splenetic.
- more unwaivering,
- un-compromising,
- dyed in the wool,
- most unwaivering,
- de-voted,
- de voted,
- un compromising.
- more hard nosed,
- more unsentimental,
- most tough nut,
- more toughnut,
- hard nosed,
- most toughnut,
- most tough-nut,
- more tough nut,
- more tough-nut,
- levelheaded,
- un sentimental,
- un-sentimental,
- toughnut,
- most hardheaded,
- hard-nosed,
- most unsentimental.
- more locked in,
- more murder,
- head strong,
- un-controllable,
- more self-willed,
- most selfwilled,
- most lockedin,
- selfwilled,
- mulest,
- most locked-in,
- muler,
- more locked-in,
- hardshell,
- more self willed,
- most murder,
- lockedin,
- more selfwilled,
- headstrong,
- most self-willed,
- most self willed,
- un-governable,
- un controllable,
- un governable,
- most locked in,
- more lockedin,
- self willed.
- more immotile,
- immovable,
- stick guns,
- un-modifiable,
- most unmodifiable,
- more unmodifiable,
- un modifiable,
- unmodifiable,
- un-alterable,
- un alterable,
- most immotile,
- set concrete.
- in escapable,
- in-exorable,
- un-movable,
- like death taxes,
- in-escapable,
- un movable,
- bound determined,
- in exorable.
- more unadaptable,
- set in ways,
- stand ones ground,
- un-adaptable,
- un swayable,
- set in ones ways,
- Unswayable,
- un adaptable,
- set ones ways,
- in flexible,
- most unswayable,
- stand ground,
- most unadaptable,
- set in one ways,
- un-swayable,
- in-flexible,
- set ways,
- stand one ground,
- set one's ways,
- more unswayable,
- set one ways.
- more bull headed,
- most bull-headed,
- in-tractable,
- more bull-headed,
- in tractable,
- bull headed,
- most bull headed.
- un cooperative,
- un pliable,
- most intransigent,
- un-pliabler,
- un-cooperative,
- un-manageable,
- in-soluble,
- un pliablest,
- un-pliable,
- un-pliablest,
- un-disciplined,
- un manageable,
- in soluble,
- un pliabler,
- unpliablest,
- un disciplined,
- unpliabler.
- in vulnerable,
- un attackable,
- un-attackable,
- in-vincible,
- in-vulnerable,
- un-touchable,
- in superable,
- in vincible,
- most unsurmountable,
- un-beatable,
- most bulletproof,
- irresistible,
- most unattackable,
- most undefeatable,
- un touchable,
- un beatable,
- un assailable,
- un-assailable,
- un-surmountable,
- in-violable,
- untouchable,
- more bulletproof,
- more unsurmountable,
- more undefeatable,
- more unattackable,
- in violable,
- un surmountable,
- in-superable.
- unsparing,
- un merciful,
- most iron-fisted,
- in humane,
- dog eat dog,
- un sparing,
- more iron-fisted,
- un feeling,
- un-sparing,
- un-merciful,
- un-pitying,
- in-humane,
- un pitying,
- more iron fisted,
- having killer instinct,
- most iron fisted,
- iron fisted,
- uncalledfor.
- more stiff necked,
- more unimpressible,
- more hard hearted,
- un-emotional,
- most hard hearted,
- thick skinned,
- most stiffnecked,
- un emotional,
- tough nut crack,
- most stiff-necked,
- thickskinned,
- more stiff-necked,
- more bullhead,
- most bullhead,
- most unimpressible,
- more hard-hearted,
- most hard-hearted,
- hard hearted,
- stiffnecked,
- stiff necked,
- un-impressible,
- un impressible,
- un-compassionate,
- most stiff necked,
- more stiffnecked,
- un compassionate.
- bovine,
- tenacious,
- hidebound,
- obstinate,
- pertinacious,
- opinionative,
- contrary,
- bigoted,
- refractory,
- brass-bound,
- mulish,
- adamant,
- uncompromising.
- de generate,
- un healthy,
- dis obedient,
- un healthier,
- un healthiest,
- un-healthy,
- de-generate,
- badtempered,
- un-reasonable,
- un-healthiest,
- dis-obedient,
- bad tempered,
- un reasonable.
- in-human,
- more unstoppable,
- most hang-tough,
- more hangtough,
- in human,
- most unstoppable,
- most hangtough,
- more hang tough,
- more hang-tough,
- hangtough,
- un stoppable,
- un-stoppable,
- stop nothing,
- most hang tough,
- unstoppable,
- stop at nothing.
- in-sensitive,
- more unrepenting,
- in tolerant,
- un remitting,
- most unrepenting,
- un contrite,
- in sensitive,
- most unregenerate,
- un regenerate,
- un repenting,
- un-repenting,
- more unregenerate,
- hard bitten,
- most uncontrite,
- un-remitting,
- more uncontrite,
- un-contrite.
- un-permissive,
- in variable,
- strait laced,
- in-variable,
- more chiseled,
- un-moving,
- most unpermissive,
- unpermissive,
- de finite,
- most chiseled,
- un permissive,
- more unpermissive,
- un moving,
- de-finite.
- hard fast,
- located,
- more situate,
- most positioned,
- more sited,
- most situate,
- Sited,
- more positioned,
- most sited,
- hard and fast.
- liege,
- re-liabler,
- re liablest,
- in tense,
- un-questioning,
- trueblue,
- in-tensest,
- re-liable,
- un-swerving,
- un questioning,
- un swerving,
- in tenser,
- re-liablest,
- in-tenser,
- true-blue,
- re liabler,
- in-tense,
- steadfast.
- un suppler,
- unsupple,
- most numbed,
- most contracted,
- most arthritic,
- more impliable,
- most immalleable,
- more chilled,
- most annealed,
- most rheumatic,
- un flexible,
- most unflexible,
- un-flexible,
- more thickened,
- be-numbed,
- creakiest,
- most starched,
- most impliable,
- more unflexible,
- more starched,
- more numbed,
- more buckram,
- un-supple,
- more annealed,
- unsuppler,
- most chilled,
- un supple,
- be numbed,
- more rheumatic,
- more immalleable,
- un graceful,
- un-supplest,
- most buckram,
- most thickened,
- stiff as board,
- unsupplest,
- more contracted,
- un-suppler,
- un-graceful,
- more arthritic,
- un supplest.
- well-made,
- take charge,
- in fine feather,
- well-built,
- heavy-duty,
- hard as nails,
- well-founded,
- iron-willed.
- more strong arm,
- built last,
- most powerhouse,
- most strong arm,
- more strongarm,
- most strongarm,
- more powerhouse,
- more strong-arm,
- most strong-arm,
- strongarm.
- more cohesive,
- more ruffianly,
- no piece cake,
- with-standing,
- most hardshelled,
- most hard-shelled,
- more hardshelled,
- most molded,
- in digestible,
- more withstanding,
- most cohesive,
- more hard shelled,
- most hard shelled,
- in-digestible,
- no piece of cake,
- more molded,
- most ruffianly,
- hard shelled,
- most withstanding,
- more hard-shelled,
- with standing,
- hardshelled.
- re-served,
- do die,
- sticking ones guns,
- sticking to ones guns,
- sticking to guns,
- sticking guns,
- standing one's ground,
- re served,
- sticking to one guns,
- hold one ground,
- un bending,
- un-bending,
- standing ones ground,
- hold fort,
- standing ground,
- sticking one guns,
- hold ones ground,
- standing one ground,
- sticking one's guns,
- hold line.
- most day and night,
- more day and night,
- un ceasing,
- un ending,
- never ending,
- un-ending,
- more day-and-night,
- most day-and-night,
- un interrupted,
- un-ceasing.
- un-shrinking,
- most unblinking,
- un shrinking,
- most unintimidated,
- most unshrinking,
- un-intimidated,
- un intimidated,
- more unblinking,
- more unintimidated,
- un flinching,
- un-flinching,
- un blinking,
- un-blinking,
- more unshrinking.
- dis-orderly,
- in-corrigible,
- out line,
- in-temperate,
- in temperate,
- out control,
- dis orderly,
- in corrigible.
- in-auspicious,
- un-luckier,
- illstarred,
- in-convenient,
- mis-fortunate,
- un happier,
- mis fortunate,
- un fortunate,
- Star-crossed,
- star crossed,
- un-fortunate,
- un favorable,
- in auspicious,
- un propitious,
- most misfortunate,
- in-opportune,
- un luckiest,
- un-happy,
- un happy,
- un-lucky,
- un timely,
- un timeliest,
- un timelier,
- in opportune,
- un happiest,
- in convenient,
- un lucky,
- un-timely,
- un-favorable,
- un luckier,
- more misfortunate,
- un-timelier,
- ill starred,
- starcrossed,
- un-timeliest.
n.
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- unforgiving,
- austere.
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- purpose.
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- resist,
- remorseless.
- dour.
Other synonyms:
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- rock-hard,
- adamantine,
- marble,
- stiffly,
- tough love,
- hardline,
- stringent,
- erectile,
- rigor.
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- exacting,
- intransigent,
- repulsive,
- die-hard,
- concrete,
- solidity,
- rock-solid,
- impenetrable,
- packed,
- strident,
- permanent.
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- erect,
- hardened,
- rebellious,
- demanding,
- severe.
- taut.
Paraphrases for Unyielding:
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Independent
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Adjective
unswerving, unrelenting, unfailing, abiding, unbreakable, staunch, unbroken, stiff.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
Refusing, hardening, unrelenting, unfailing, abiding.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
unwavering, uncompromising, unshakeable, unflinching, unshakable, rigid, steadfast, single-minded, tough, adamant.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
unwavering, uncompromising, unswerving, unflinching.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Unyielding:
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adj.
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steadfast, resolute
Surrendering, giving, soft, kind, merciful, yielding, pliant, compassionate, cooperative, pliable, sympathetic, nice, submissive, flexible.
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Other antonyms:
accepting, malleable, obliging, permeable, light, spineless, receptive, reasonable, thin, plastic, wavering, temperate, slack, agreeable, complaisant, floppy, willing, irresolute, softening, slavish, persuadable, bendable, lank, responsive, complying, invertebrate, scattered, droopy, flaccid, semisoft, governable, subservient, airy, slackening, teachable, loose, porous, workable, undecided, limp, elastic, impotent, weak, gentle, dutiful, placable.
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steadfast, resolute