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单词 unyielding
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Definition of unyielding in English:

unyielding

adjectiveʌnˈjiːldɪŋˌənˈjildɪŋ
  • 1(of a mass or structure) not giving way to pressure; hard or solid.

    the Atlantic hurled its waves at the unyielding rocks
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The long season leads to unyielding pressure on players to perform at their optimum level throughout the year.
    • Looking below to the hard, unyielding surface below, it is the first time I've had second thought about the whole warrior trainee thing.
    • The spine cracked as he opened it, and the paper was stiff and unyielding.
    • His left side felt cold, pressing against a hard unyielding surface.
    • You hack away with a pick-axe, rewarded only by a few flying chips from the unyielding rock.
    • Viewers may be surprised to learn these seemingly unyielding shapes are in fact hollow.
    • Who says electronic devices have to be moulded out of unyielding plastic or milled from hard metal?
    • It is as if all that running around is a smoke-screen, a dazzling distraction to hide the hard and unyielding carapace.
    • It also helps protect your body from being injured by the unyielding hard metal and plastic surfaces on the inside of your car.
    • Her stiff, unyielding upper body makes it hard to color her roles with real, heartfelt emotion.
    • The cliffs are so solid and unyielding and yet, these beautiful, persistent plants are allowed to set their roots into that so seemingly impervious surface.
    • It's hard, unyielding rock, 700 million to 800 million years old, left over from an ancient mountain range.
    • Taking it in his hands, he examined its polished and unblemished surface: cut across the grain, it was solid and unyielding to the touch.
    • Tunnels were dug into the castle's unyielding rock.
    • Cheap fake suede is hard and unyielding to your body.
    • Glass as a material seems so hard and unyielding - the slightest bump and it's liable to shatter into tiny shards.
    • Rain splashed against the unyielding rock, shattering into droplets, fragments scattering everywhere.
    • Acute limb compartment syndrome is a surgical emergency characterised by raised pressure in an unyielding osteofascial compartment.
    • Yet, when put under pressure the apparent unyielding stiffness becomes a lovely springy curve, and it's that which puts pressure on the fish.
    • The main raw material that is a compound of polyester resin mixed with calcium carbonate is caste in silicone rubber which helps in giving it an unyielding structure.
    Synonyms
    stiff, inflexible, unpliable, non-flexible, unbending, inelastic, firm, hard, solid, tough, tight, taut, compact, compacted, compressed, dense
    rare impliable, unmalleable, renitent
    1. 1.1 (of a person or their behaviour) unlikely to be swayed; resolute.
      his unyielding faith
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A compelling leader with brilliant intelligence, he was adamant and unyielding in his mission.
      • He was quintessentially labor, he was uncompromising in his stance for the poor and the dispossessed, and he was unyielding in his respect for the dignity of work.
      • He is both a friend and a tough, unyielding journalist.
      • He was a steely fellow, a man with a gentle Southern accent and an unyielding faith in discipline.
      • Alas, it not only had large keys, but a stiff and unyielding action.
      • Even with her vegetation obsession, she was unyielding and did not back down from ridicule or teasing.
      • She was a tough woman of unyielding principle, standing up in protest against war, injustice and conditions of impoverishment.
      • Those who worked with Cameron found him arrogant and unyielding to pressure to alter the course he had set.
      • He is unyielding in his perceptions, and his rigidity both elevates and isolates him.
      • Katherine first started therapy as a rigid, unyielding business person, with no sense of frivolity or joy.
      • On divorce, contraception, abortion and homosexuality, he was unyielding in his adherence to doctrine.
      • The dignified way in which she battled her brain tumour is a credit to her unyielding character.
      • Most famous for his swashbuckling systems and successes at Foggia more than 10 years ago, he was an unyielding believer in attack as the best form of defence.
      • It was hard to win with my father; he was an unyielding man, and a force to be reckoned with if you fell short of anything less than perfection.
      • One of the golden threads that links all these great people is their unyielding commitment to do that which was right in the face of mammoth challenges.
      • Unlike the previous confrontation, however, his men were equally unyielding.
      • The drive she feels to achieve, Simone says, can be traced directly to the unyielding support she has felt from her family.
      • Friends credit his survival to his positive outlook, his unyielding faith and an iron will.
      • We're absolutely unyielding, though, on the subject of our good intentions.
      • His is a story of a remarkable, unyielding spirit and uncompromisingly fierce defiance.
      Synonyms
      resolute, inflexible, uncompromising, unbending, unshakeable, unwavering
      unpersuadable, uncooperative, immovable, intractable, intransigent, rigid, stiff, hard-line, hard and fast, tough, firm, determined, iron-willed, dogged, obstinate, stubborn, not giving an inch, diehard, adamant, obdurate, tenacious, pertinacious, relentless, implacable, inexorable, single-minded, stiff-necked
      British informal bloody-minded
      rare indurate, renitent, unmalleable

Derivatives

  • unyieldingly

  • adverb
    • The music was buried under layers upon layers of noise, creating an album that was unyieldingly experimental, yet eventually allowed listeners to find some brilliant melodies underneath the mess.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As a result, I labeled the genre to be sterile and difficult; the album's beats are very mechanical, sometimes tiresomely so, and the solemn melodies are unyieldingly complex.
      • They are small and unyieldingly hard, not like normal pillows at all.
      • Death, from this perspective, seems unproblematically universal, a simple, irreducible fact of our nature, unyieldingly the same across all societies and throughout time.
      • Between August 8 and September 21, the Braves went 32-7 to take a grip on first place, but were still hard pressed to hold off the unyieldingly stubborn Giants.
  • unyieldingness

  • noun
    • In most of his works, he expressed his feelings and unyieldingness through description of things, showing a stirring, majestic character in a sad, bleak tone.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Those who have met him were impressed by the mixture of flexibility and unyieldingness in his personality.
      • The new style of their music, net T-shirts, which exposed more than was usual then, her unyieldingness and eccentric opinions caused lots of bans and prohibitions.
      • The pitch-black bark with coarse texture is well weathered and full of the verve of unyieldingness.
      • But the rule of the Army is inexorable, and he likes it for its unyieldingness.
 
 

Definition of unyielding in US English:

unyielding

adjectiveˌənˈjildɪŋˌənˈyēldiNG
  • 1(of a mass or structure) not giving way to pressure; hard or solid.

    the Atlantic hurled its waves at the unyielding rocks
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Yet, when put under pressure the apparent unyielding stiffness becomes a lovely springy curve, and it's that which puts pressure on the fish.
    • Viewers may be surprised to learn these seemingly unyielding shapes are in fact hollow.
    • Her stiff, unyielding upper body makes it hard to color her roles with real, heartfelt emotion.
    • The cliffs are so solid and unyielding and yet, these beautiful, persistent plants are allowed to set their roots into that so seemingly impervious surface.
    • The long season leads to unyielding pressure on players to perform at their optimum level throughout the year.
    • Looking below to the hard, unyielding surface below, it is the first time I've had second thought about the whole warrior trainee thing.
    • You hack away with a pick-axe, rewarded only by a few flying chips from the unyielding rock.
    • It's hard, unyielding rock, 700 million to 800 million years old, left over from an ancient mountain range.
    • Who says electronic devices have to be moulded out of unyielding plastic or milled from hard metal?
    • Taking it in his hands, he examined its polished and unblemished surface: cut across the grain, it was solid and unyielding to the touch.
    • Acute limb compartment syndrome is a surgical emergency characterised by raised pressure in an unyielding osteofascial compartment.
    • His left side felt cold, pressing against a hard unyielding surface.
    • Tunnels were dug into the castle's unyielding rock.
    • Cheap fake suede is hard and unyielding to your body.
    • Rain splashed against the unyielding rock, shattering into droplets, fragments scattering everywhere.
    • Glass as a material seems so hard and unyielding - the slightest bump and it's liable to shatter into tiny shards.
    • It is as if all that running around is a smoke-screen, a dazzling distraction to hide the hard and unyielding carapace.
    • The main raw material that is a compound of polyester resin mixed with calcium carbonate is caste in silicone rubber which helps in giving it an unyielding structure.
    • The spine cracked as he opened it, and the paper was stiff and unyielding.
    • It also helps protect your body from being injured by the unyielding hard metal and plastic surfaces on the inside of your car.
    Synonyms
    stiff, inflexible, unpliable, non-flexible, unbending, inelastic, firm, hard, solid, tough, tight, taut, compact, compacted, compressed, dense
    1. 1.1 (of a person or their behavior) unlikely to be swayed; resolute.
      his unyielding faith
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She was a tough woman of unyielding principle, standing up in protest against war, injustice and conditions of impoverishment.
      • He is both a friend and a tough, unyielding journalist.
      • Unlike the previous confrontation, however, his men were equally unyielding.
      • We're absolutely unyielding, though, on the subject of our good intentions.
      • Even with her vegetation obsession, she was unyielding and did not back down from ridicule or teasing.
      • A compelling leader with brilliant intelligence, he was adamant and unyielding in his mission.
      • Alas, it not only had large keys, but a stiff and unyielding action.
      • It was hard to win with my father; he was an unyielding man, and a force to be reckoned with if you fell short of anything less than perfection.
      • He was quintessentially labor, he was uncompromising in his stance for the poor and the dispossessed, and he was unyielding in his respect for the dignity of work.
      • He is unyielding in his perceptions, and his rigidity both elevates and isolates him.
      • Most famous for his swashbuckling systems and successes at Foggia more than 10 years ago, he was an unyielding believer in attack as the best form of defence.
      • The dignified way in which she battled her brain tumour is a credit to her unyielding character.
      • Katherine first started therapy as a rigid, unyielding business person, with no sense of frivolity or joy.
      • Friends credit his survival to his positive outlook, his unyielding faith and an iron will.
      • His is a story of a remarkable, unyielding spirit and uncompromisingly fierce defiance.
      • He was a steely fellow, a man with a gentle Southern accent and an unyielding faith in discipline.
      • On divorce, contraception, abortion and homosexuality, he was unyielding in his adherence to doctrine.
      • Those who worked with Cameron found him arrogant and unyielding to pressure to alter the course he had set.
      • One of the golden threads that links all these great people is their unyielding commitment to do that which was right in the face of mammoth challenges.
      • The drive she feels to achieve, Simone says, can be traced directly to the unyielding support she has felt from her family.
      Synonyms
      resolute, inflexible, uncompromising, unbending, unshakeable, unwavering
 
 
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