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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNYIE'LDING, a.
1. Not yielding to force or persuasion; unbending; unpliant; stiff; firm; obstinate.
2. Not giving place.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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" [syn: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding]
2: resistant to physical force or pressure; "an unyielding head support"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1565 1. characterized by firmness or obduracy 2. characterized by lack of softness or flexibility • unyieldingly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 not yielding to pressure etc. 2 firm, obstinate. Derivatives: unyieldingly adv. unyieldingness n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. You describe someone as unyielding when they have very strong, fixed ideas about something and are unlikely to change their mind. (WRITTEN) The authorities proved unyielding on one crucial opposition demand... His unyielding attitude on this subject was that since he had done it, so could everyone. ADJ 2. If a barrier or surface is unyielding, it is very solid or hard. (LITERARY) ...the troopers, who had to build roads through those unyielding mountains... He sat on the edge of an unyielding armchair, a cup of tea in his hand. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Inflexible, constant, steady, resolute, steadfast, stanch, pertinacious, determined, indomitable. 2. Stubborn, stiff, obstinate, wilful, headstrong, intractable, perverse, wayward. 3. Stiff, rigid, stubborn, hard, firm, unbending.

Moby Thesaurus

adamant, adamantine, at a standstill, bowelless, bulky, bullheaded, cast-iron, certain, closed to, complaining, constant, cruel, dense, disputatious, disputing, dissentient, dissenting, dog-eat-dog, dour, durable, enduring, fated, fateful, firm, fixed, flinty, fractious, frozen, fundamentalist, grim, hard, hard-core, hard-line, harsh, headstrong, heartless, heavy, hidebound, immobile, immotile, immotive, immovable, immutable, impenetrable, impersuadable, impersuasible, impervious, implacable, impliable, impregnable, inclement, incontestable, indefeasible, indomitable, inductile, inelastic, ineluctable, inescapable, inevasible, inevitable, inexorable, inexpugnable, inextensible, inextensile, inextensional, inflexible, insuperable, intractable, intractile, intransigent, invincible, inviolable, invulnerable, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironfisted, ironhanded, irreconcilable, irremovable, irresilient, irresistible, irrevocable, lasting, loyal, massive, merciless, mortal, mulish, muscle-bound, necessary, noncooperative, nonelastic, nonstretchable, obdurate, objecting, obstinate, obstructive, on the barricades, orthodox, overpowering, overwhelming, pat, pertinacious, pigheaded, pitiless, procrustean, proof against, protesting, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, relentless, reluctant, remorseless, renitent, repellent, resistant, resisting, resistive, resistless, retardant, retardative, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rock-ribbed, rockbound, rugged, ruthless, self-willed, set, settled, single-minded, solid, sot, sound, stable, standpat, stationary, staunch, steadfast, steady, steely, stern, stiff, stout, straightlaced, straitlaced, strong, stubborn, sturdy, sure, sure as death, sure as fate, tough, true, unaffected, unalterable, unamenable, unappeasable, unassailable, unavoidable, unbeatable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompassionate, uncompassioned, uncompliant, uncompromising, unconquerable, uncontrollable, uncooperative, undeflectable, unextendible, unextensible, unfeeling, unflappable, unflexible, unflinching, unforgiving, ungiving, unimpressionable, uninfluenceable, unlimber, unmalleable, unmerciful, unmovable, unmoved, unmoving, unpersuadable, unpitiful, unpitying, unpliable, unpliant, unpreventable, unreceptive, unrelenting, unremorseful, unresponsive, unshaken, unstoppable, unsubduable, unsubmissive, unsuggestible, unsurmountable, unsusceptible, unswayable, unswerving, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, untractable, up in arms, well-built, well-constructed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made, without mercy, withstanding