UNCOMPROMISING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uncompromising mean? 

• UNCOMPROMISING (adjective)
  The adjective UNCOMPROMISING has 1 sense:

1. not making concessions

  Familiarity information: UNCOMPROMISING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCOMPROMISING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not making concessions

Synonyms:

inflexible; sturdy; uncompromising

Context example:

uncompromising honesty

Similar:

hard-line; hardline (firm and uncompromising)

Antonym:

compromising (making or willing to make concessions)

 Context examples 

She brought with her two uncompromising hard black boxes, with her initials on the lids in hard brass nails.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meanwhile the supper was in full swing—one of those solid and uncompromising meals which prevailed in the days of your grandfathers, and which may explain to some of you why you never set eyes upon that relative.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My aunt tied the strings of her bonnet (she had come down to breakfast in it), and put on her shawl, as if she were ready for anything that was resolute and uncompromising.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I found Mrs. Micawber in the closest and most uncompromising of bonnets, made fast under the chin; and in a shawl which tied her up (as I had been tied up, when my aunt first received me) like a bundle, and was secured behind at the waist, in a strong knot.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My dear Copperfield, said Mr. Micawber, rising with one of his thumbs in each of his waistcoat pockets, the companion of my youth: if I may be allowed the expression—and my esteemed friend Traddles: if I may be permitted to call him so—will allow me, on the part of Mrs. Micawber, myself, and our offspring, to thank them in the warmest and most uncompromising terms for their good wishes.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)