unyielding
/ʌnˈjiːldɪŋ/
US pronunciation
American sound/ʌnˈjiːldɪŋ/
ʌnˈjiːldɪŋ
- Syllables
- 3 syllables
- Stress
- 2nd syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Final ng sound
ʌn - ˈjiːldɪŋ -> unyielding
Myanmar meaning
Full entry
unyielding /ʌn'ji:ldÇŋ / adj ~ (in sth)
တင်းမာသော။ အလျှော့မပေးသော။ အရှုံး မပေးသော။ The mattress was hard and unyielding. ❍ She is unyielding in her opposition to the plan.
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- ‘It is as if all that running around is a smoke-screen, a dazzling distraction to hide the hard and unyielding carapace.’
- ‘Who says electronic devices have to be moulded out of unyielding plastic or milled from hard metal?’
- ‘Cheap fake suede is hard and unyielding to your body.’
- ‘Looking below to the hard, unyielding surface below, it is the first time I've had second thought about the whole warrior trainee thing.’
- ‘Rain splashed against the unyielding rock, shattering into droplets, fragments scattering everywhere.’
- ‘The spine cracked as he opened it, and the paper was stiff and unyielding.’
- ‘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 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.’
- ‘Taking it in his hands, he examined its polished and unblemished surface: cut across the grain, it was solid and unyielding to the touch.’
- ‘It's hard, unyielding rock, 700 million to 800 million years old, left over from an ancient mountain range.’
- ‘Viewers may be surprised to learn these seemingly unyielding shapes are in fact hollow.’
- ‘You hack away with a pick-axe, rewarded only by a few flying chips from the unyielding rock.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘His left side felt cold, pressing against a hard unyielding surface.’
- ‘Tunnels were dug into the castle's unyielding rock.’
- ‘It also helps protect your body from being injured by the unyielding hard metal and plastic surfaces on the inside of your car.’
- ‘Acute limb compartment syndrome is a surgical emergency characterised by raised pressure in an unyielding osteofascial compartment.’
- ‘Her stiff, unyielding upper body makes it hard to color her roles with real, heartfelt emotion.’
- ‘Glass as a material seems so hard and unyielding - the slightest bump and it's liable to shatter into tiny shards.’
Synonyms
firm, unbending, obstinate, steadfast, obdurate, immovable, tough, uncompromising, adamant, stanch, dead set on, determined, durable, fixed, hard, hard-core, hard-line, hard-nosed, hardheaded, headstrong, immalleable, implacable, impliable, inexorable, inflexible, intractable, locked in, merciless, mulish, pertinacious, pigheaded, refractory, relentless, resolute, rigid, ruthless, single-minded, solid, staunch, stiff, stiff-necked, stubborn, uncompliant, unmovable, unrelenting, unswayable, unwavering
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