unyielding

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Germanic *un-

Proto-West Germanic *un-

Old English un-

Middle English un-

English un-

English yielding

English unyielding

From un- + yielding.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -iːldɪŋ

Adjective

unyielding (comparative more unyielding, superlative most unyielding)

1. Not giving in; not bending; stubborn.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:obstinate

   unyielding pressure

   unyielding support

   • 1936, J. R. R. Tolkien, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, published 1976, page 18:

     I refer rather to the central position the creed of unyiedling will holds in the North.

Derived terms

• unyieldingly
• unyieldingness

Translations

not giving in

• Armenian: աննկուն (hy) (annkun)
• Bulgarian: неподдаващ (nepoddavašt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 堅定 / 坚定 (zh) (jiāndìng), 不屈 (zh) (bùqǔ), 堅決 / 坚决 (zh) (jiānjué)

• Czech: mezlomný m
• Finnish: peräänantamaton (fi)
• French: inflexible (fr)
• German: unnachgiebig (de), unbeugsam (de)
• Latin: impenetrabilis
• Manx: reen, do-scughey, sthurneishagh (of person), antoyrtagh (of grip), neulhoobagh (gyn lhiggey lesh) (of grip)
• Spanish: inflexible (es), obstinado (es), indefectible (es), firme (es), inexorable (es)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: صارپ (sarp)

• Ukrainian: непосту́пливий (nepostúplyvyj), непідда́тливий (nepiddátlyvyj), непода́тливий (nepodátlyvyj), невідсту́пний (nevidstúpnyj)