UNYIELDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unyielding mean? 

• UNYIELDING (adjective)
  The adjective UNYIELDING has 2 senses:

1. stubbornly unyielding

2. resistant to physical force or pressure

  Familiarity information: UNYIELDING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNYIELDING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stubbornly unyielding

Synonyms:

dogged; dour; persistent; pertinacious; tenacious; unyielding

Context example:

men tenacious of opinion

Similar:

obstinate; stubborn; unregenerate (tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield)

Derivation:

unyieldingness (resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Resistant to physical force or pressure

Context example:

an unyielding head support

Similar:

hard (resisting weight or pressure)

 Context examples 

All that I had ever seen in him of an unyielding, wilful spirit, I saw in her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Localized scleroderma typically affects the skin, with formation of patches or lines of thick and unyielding tissue; there can be muscle and underlying tissue involvement as well as occasional joint complications.

(Localized Scleroderma, NCI Thesaurus)

His sisters, to whom he had an opportunity of speaking the next morning, were quite as impatient of his advice, quite as unyielding to his representation, quite as determined in the cause of pleasure, as Tom.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

To accomplish the change was like a reflux of being, and this when the plasticity of youth was no longer his; when the fibre of him had become tough and knotty; when the warp and the woof of him had made of him an adamantine texture, harsh and unyielding; when the face of his spirit had become iron and all his instincts and axioms had crystallised into set rules, cautions, dislikes, and desires.

(White Fang, by Jack London)