uncompromisingadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈkɒmprəmʌɪzɪŋ/, /(ˌ)ʌŋˈkɒmprəmʌɪzɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌənˈkɑmprəˌmaɪzɪŋ/ Not willing or seeking to compromise; unyielding, unbending; stiff, stubborn:
a. Of persons.
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the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective] > inflexible
ironOE
stour1303
strange1338
unmovablea1382
inflexible1398
stoutc1410
unpliablea1425
intreatable1509
stiff1526
stiff-necked1526
unpliant1547
stout-hearted1552
inexorable1553
obstinate1559
strait-laced1560
impersuasible1576
unflexiblea1586
hard-edged1589
adamantive1594
unyielding1594
adder-deaf1597
steeled1600
irrefragable1601
rigid1606
unpersuadable1607
imployable1613
unswayablea1616
uncompellable1623
inflexive?1624
over-rigid1632
unlimbera1639
seta1640
incomplying1640
uncomplying1643
stiff-girt1659
impersuadable1680
unbendinga1688
impracticable1713
unblendable1716
stiff-rumped1728
unconvinciblea1747
uncompounding1782
unplastic1787
unbending1796
adamant1816
uneasy1819
uncompromising1828
cast iron1829
hard-hitting1831
rigoristic1844
ramrod1850
pincé1858
anchylosed1860
unbendable1884
tape-bound1900
tape-tied1900
hard line1903
tough1905
absolutist1907
hard-arsed1942
go-for-broke1946
hardcore1951
hard-arse1966
hard-ass1967
hardball1974
1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham II. i. 4 We must pursue the same course—stern and uncompromising.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 541 The most honest, fearless, and uncompromising republican of his time.
1863 ‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage I. vi. 121 Among uncompromising patriots as among poor foreigners.
b. Of feelings, attitudes of mind, etc.
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1830 Forrester III. 89 [He was] aroused..to a full sense of the danger he had incurred by his uncompromising hostility.
1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay vii. 102 Whose uncompromising sincerity might convince the hardest sceptic of its reality.
c. figurative. Of things.
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1875 M. A. Barker Year's Housek. S. Afr. (1877) i. 7 The ‘Devil's Peak’ is uncompromising enough for any one's taste.
1889 J. J. Hissey Tour in Phaeton 363 A square house ‘with no nonsense about it’,..an uncompromising square house.
Derivatives
unˈcompromisingly adv.
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the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adverb] > inflexibly
unmovablyc1425
inflexiblya1535
inexorably1610
rigidly1610
unpersuadably1619
unrelentingly1637
impersuasibly1659
full-mouthedly1681
unpliantly1755
uncompromisingly1834
indomitably1837
imperviously1840
unyieldingly1884
tough1943
1834 J. S. Mill in Monthly Repos. 8 527 The military tribunals..Mr. Abercromby..steadily and uncompromisingly opposed.
1837 E. B. Pusey Let. in H. P. Liddon et al. Life & Lett. E. B. Pusey (1894) I. 388 However uncompromisingly they maintain the maxim.
1888 M. E. Braddon Fatal Three I. iv. 52 The dressmaker sent home three new frocks, all uncompromisingly ugly.
unˈcompromisingness n.
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the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] > inflexibility
unbowingnessa1300
impersuasibility?1549
unpliableness1595
unyieldingness1613
unpersuadableness1615
inflexiblenessa1617
rigidity1620
rigidness1620
unpersuasibleness1649
incompliancy1658
impersuasibleness1659
unpersuasiona1684
impersuadableness1715
inflexibility1742
unadvisableness1771
unadaptability1829
unpliancy1831
unyielding1847
uncompromisedness1851
anchylosis1852
uncompromisingness1865
1865 E. B. Pusey Eirenicon 284 The uncompromisingness of the Church of England in maintaining Catholic truth.
1894 Fortn. Rev. May 690 Even her uncompromisingness is preferable to the ostentatious abandonment of principles.
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