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un bending
adjective as in inexorable
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- adamant
- adamantine
- bound
- bound and determined
- compulsory
- dead set on
- dogged
- hard
- harsh
- hell bent on
- immobile
- immovable
- ineluctable
- inflexible
- ironclad
- like death and taxes
- locked-in
- mean business
- necessary
- no going back
- obdurate
- obstinate
- remorseless
- resolute
- rigid
- set in stone
- severe
- single-minded
- stubborn
- unappeasable
- unbending
- uncompromising
- unmovable
- unyielding
adjective as in inflexible
Strongest matches
adjective as in inflexible
Strongest match
adjective as in intractable/intransigent
Weak matches
- awkward
- bullheaded
- cantankerous
- contrary
- hang-tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- locked-in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- set in stone
- tenacious
- tough
- unbending
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unmanageable
- unpliable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
adjective as in iron
adjective as in obdurate
Weak matches
- adamant
- bullhead
- callous
- cold fish
- dogged
- firm
- fixed
- hanging tough
- hard
- hard-boiled
- hard-hearted
- hard-nosed
- harsh
- heartless
- immovable
- implacable
- indurate
- inexorable
- inflexible
- iron
- mean
- mulish
- obstinate
- perverse
- relentless
- rigid
- set in stone
- stiff-necked
- thick-skinned
- tough
- unbending
- uncompassionate
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- unemotional
- unfeeling
- unimpressible
- unrelenting
- unshakable
- unsympathetic
- unyielding
adjective as in relentless
Strongest matches
adjective as in resolute
Strongest matches
adjective as in rigid
Strongest matches
adjective as in balky
adjective as in severe
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- ascetic
- astringent
- austere
- biting
- caustic
- close
- cold
- cruel
- cutting
- despotic
- disapproving
- dour
- earnest
- firm
- flinty
- forbidding
- grave
- grim
- hard
- hard-nosed
- inconsiderate
- inexorable
- inflexible
- iron-handed
- obdurate
- oppressive
- peremptory
- pitiless
- resolute
- resolved
- rigid
- rigorous
- satirical
- scathing
- sober
- stern
- stiff
- strait-laced
- tight-lipped
- tyrannical
- unalterable
- unbending
- unchanging
- unfeeling
- unrelenting
- unsmiling
- unsparing
adjective as in steadfast
Strongest matches
adjective as in stiff
adjective as in strong
adjective as in stubborn
Strongest matches
adjective as in thick-skinned
adjective as in tight
Strongest matches
adjective as in tough
Strong matches
Weak matches
adjective as in unbending
Weak matches
- aloof
- distant
- do-or-die
- dug in
- formal
- hard as nails
- hard-line
- hold one's ground
- hold the fort
- hold the line
- incompliant
- inelastic
- inexorable
- inflexible
- intractable
- locked-in
- obdurate
- relentless
- resolute
- set in stone
- severe
- single-minded
- standing one's ground
- standing pat
- sticking to one's guns
- stiff
- strict
- stubborn
- uncompromising
- unflexible
- unrelenting
- unswayable
- unyielding
- uptight
adjective as in uncompromising
adjective as in unmitigated
Strongest matches
adjective as in unrelenting
Strongest matches
adjective as in unsociable
Strongest match
adjective as in unyielding
Strongest matches
adjective as in wooden
adjective as in hard-and-fast
adjective as in intractable
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- awkward
- bull-headed
- cantankerous
- contrary
- fractious
- hang-tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- locked
- locked-in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pig-headed
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- tenacious
- tough
- unbending
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unpliable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
adjective as in all-or-nothing
Strongest matches
adjective as in callous
adjective as in strong-willed
Strongest match
adjective as in inelastic
adjective as in single-minded
adjective as in adamantine
adjective as in inalterable
Strong match
Weak matches
- adamant
- adamantine
- determined
- dogged
- dyed-in-the-wool
- firm
- fixed
- hard
- hard-and-fast
- immovable
- immutable
- implacable
- indomitable
- inexorable
- intractable
- invariable
- iron
- ironclad
- obdurate
- obstinate
- relentless
- resolute
- rigid
- rigorous
- set
- set in one's ways
- single-minded
- stand one's ground
- staunch
- steadfast
- steely
- stiff
- strict
- stringent
- unadaptable
- unbending
- unchangeable
- uncompliant
- uncompromising
- unrelenting
- unswayable
- unyielding
adjective as in incompliant
Weak matches
- adamant
- adamantine
- balky
- brassbound
- bullheaded
- cantankerous
- contumacious
- cussed
- determined
- die-hard
- dogged
- firm
- fixed
- grim
- hardheaded
- headstrong
- implacable
- inexorable
- inflexible
- insubordinate
- intractable
- intransigent
- iron
- mulish
- obdurate
- opinionated
- ornery
- persevering
- persistent
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- rebellious
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- relentless
- remorseless
- rigid
- self-willed
- set in one's ways
- single-minded
- steadfast
- stiff-necked
- tenacious
- tough
- unbendable
- unbending
- uncompliant
- uncompromising
- unmanageable
- unreasonable
- unrelenting
- unshakable
- untoward
- unyielding
- willful
adjective as in adamant
adjective as in passionless
adjective as in unbendable
Weak matches
- adamant
- adamantine
- balky
- brassbound
- bullheaded
- cantankerous
- contumacious
- cussed
- determined
- die-hard
- dogged
- firm
- fixed
- grim
- hardheaded
- headstrong
- implacable
- incompliant
- inexorable
- inflexible
- insubordinate
- intractable
- intransigent
- iron
- mulish
- obdurate
- opinionated
- ornery
- persevering
- persistent
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- rebellious
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- relentless
- remorseless
- rigid
- self-willed
- set in one's ways
- single-minded
- steadfast
- stiff-necked
- tenacious
- tough
- unbending
- uncompliant
- uncompromising
- unmanageable
- unreasonable
- unrelenting
- unshakable
- untoward
- unyielding
- willful
adjective as in uncompliant
Weak matches
- adamant
- adamantine
- balky
- brassbound
- bullheaded
- cantankerous
- contumacious
- cussed
- determined
- die-hard
- dogged
- firm
- fixed
- grim
- hardheaded
- headstrong
- implacable
- incompliant
- inexorable
- inflexible
- insubordinate
- intractable
- intransigent
- iron
- mulish
- obdurate
- opinionated
- ornery
- persevering
- persistent
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- rebellious
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- relentless
- remorseless
- rigid
- self-willed
- set in one's ways
- single-minded
- steadfast
- stiff-necked
- tenacious
- tough
- unbendable
- unbending
- uncompromising
- unmanageable
- unreasonable
- unrelenting
- unshakable
- untoward
- unyielding
- willful
adjective as in decided
adjective as in dogged
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in extreme
Strongest matches
adjective as in firm
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in fixed
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in formal
adjective as in frigid
adjective as in hard-boiled
adjective as in hardened
Strongest matches
adjective as in hard-line
adjective as in implacable
verb as in relax
verb as in rest
Strong matches
verb as in stoop
Strongest match
Weak matches
verb as in straighten
verb as in thaw
verb as in unfold
verb as in unwind
verb as in condescend
adjective as in inexorable
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- adamant
- adamantine
- bound
- bound and determined
- compulsory
- dead set on
- dogged
- hard
- harsh
- hell bent on
- immobile
- immovable
- ineluctable
- inflexible
- ironclad
- like death and taxes
- locked-in
- mean business
- necessary
- no going back
- obdurate
- obstinate
- remorseless
- resolute
- rigid
- set in stone
- severe
- single-minded
- stubborn
- unappeasable
- unbending
- uncompromising
- unmovable
- unyielding
adjective as in inflexible
Strongest matches
adjective as in inflexible
Strongest match
adjective as in intractable/intransigent
Weak matches
- awkward
- bullheaded
- cantankerous
- contrary
- hang-tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- locked-in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- set in stone
- tenacious
- tough
- unbending
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unmanageable
- unpliable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
adjective as in iron
adjective as in obdurate
Weak matches
- adamant
- bullhead
- callous
- cold fish
- dogged
- firm
- fixed
- hanging tough
- hard
- hard-boiled
- hard-hearted
- hard-nosed
- harsh
- heartless
- immovable
- implacable
- indurate
- inexorable
- inflexible
- iron
- mean
- mulish
- obstinate
- perverse
- relentless
- rigid
- set in stone
- stiff-necked
- thick-skinned
- tough
- unbending
- uncompassionate
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- unemotional
- unfeeling
- unimpressible
- unrelenting
- unshakable
- unsympathetic
- unyielding
adjective as in relentless
Strongest matches
adjective as in resolute
Strongest matches
adjective as in rigid
Strongest matches
adjective as in balky
adjective as in severe
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- ascetic
- astringent
- austere
- biting
- caustic
- close
- cold
- cruel
- cutting
- despotic
- disapproving
- dour
- earnest
- firm
- flinty
- forbidding
- grave
- grim
- hard
- hard-nosed
- inconsiderate
- inexorable
- inflexible
- iron-handed
- obdurate
- oppressive
- peremptory
- pitiless
- resolute
- resolved
- rigid
- rigorous
- satirical
- scathing
- sober
- stern
- stiff
- strait-laced
- tight-lipped
- tyrannical
- unalterable
- unbending
- unchanging
- unfeeling
- unrelenting
- unsmiling
- unsparing
adjective as in steadfast
Strongest matches
adjective as in stiff
adjective as in strong
adjective as in stubborn
Strongest matches
adjective as in thick-skinned
adjective as in tight
Strongest matches
adjective as in tough
Strong matches
Weak matches
adjective as in unbending
Weak matches
- aloof
- distant
- do-or-die
- dug in
- formal
- hard as nails
- hard-line
- hold one's ground
- hold the fort
- hold the line
- incompliant
- inelastic
- inexorable
- inflexible
- intractable
- locked-in
- obdurate
- relentless
- resolute
- set in stone
- severe
- single-minded
- standing one's ground
- standing pat
- sticking to one's guns
- stiff
- strict
- stubborn
- uncompromising
- unflexible
- unrelenting
- unswayable
- unyielding
- uptight
adjective as in uncompromising
adjective as in unmitigated
Strongest matches
adjective as in unrelenting
Strongest matches
adjective as in unsociable
Strongest match
adjective as in unyielding
Strongest matches
adjective as in wooden
adjective as in hard-and-fast
adjective as in intractable
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- awkward
- bull-headed
- cantankerous
- contrary
- fractious
- hang-tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- locked
- locked-in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pig-headed
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- tenacious
- tough
- unbending
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unpliable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
adjective as in all-or-nothing
Strongest matches
adjective as in callous
adjective as in strong-willed
Strongest match
adjective as in inelastic
adjective as in single-minded
adjective as in adamantine
adjective as in inalterable
Strong match
Weak matches
- adamant
- adamantine
- determined
- dogged
- dyed-in-the-wool
- firm
- fixed
- hard
- hard-and-fast
- immovable
- immutable
- implacable
- indomitable
- inexorable
- intractable
- invariable
- iron
- ironclad
- obdurate
- obstinate
- relentless
- resolute
- rigid
- rigorous
- set
- set in one's ways
- single-minded
- stand one's ground
- staunch
- steadfast
- steely
- stiff
- strict
- stringent
- unadaptable
- unbending
- unchangeable
- uncompliant
- uncompromising
- unrelenting
- unswayable
- unyielding
adjective as in incompliant
Weak matches
- adamant
- adamantine
- balky
- brassbound
- bullheaded
- cantankerous
- contumacious
- cussed
- determined
- die-hard
- dogged
- firm
- fixed
- grim
- hardheaded
- headstrong
- implacable
- inexorable
- inflexible
- insubordinate
- intractable
- intransigent
- iron
- mulish
- obdurate
- opinionated
- ornery
- persevering
- persistent
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- rebellious
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- relentless
- remorseless
- rigid
- self-willed
- set in one's ways
- single-minded
- steadfast
- stiff-necked
- tenacious
- tough
- unbendable
- unbending
- uncompliant
- uncompromising
- unmanageable
- unreasonable
- unrelenting
- unshakable
- untoward
- unyielding
- willful
adjective as in adamant
adjective as in passionless
adjective as in unbendable
Weak matches
- adamant
- adamantine
- balky
- brassbound
- bullheaded
- cantankerous
- contumacious
- cussed
- determined
- die-hard
- dogged
- firm
- fixed
- grim
- hardheaded
- headstrong
- implacable
- incompliant
- inexorable
- inflexible
- insubordinate
- intractable
- intransigent
- iron
- mulish
- obdurate
- opinionated
- ornery
- persevering
- persistent
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- rebellious
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- relentless
- remorseless
- rigid
- self-willed
- set in one's ways
- single-minded
- steadfast
- stiff-necked
- tenacious
- tough
- unbending
- uncompliant
- uncompromising
- unmanageable
- unreasonable
- unrelenting
- unshakable
- untoward
- unyielding
- willful
adjective as in uncompliant
Weak matches
- adamant
- adamantine
- balky
- brassbound
- bullheaded
- cantankerous
- contumacious
- cussed
- determined
- die-hard
- dogged
- firm
- fixed
- grim
- hardheaded
- headstrong
- implacable
- incompliant
- inexorable
- inflexible
- insubordinate
- intractable
- intransigent
- iron
- mulish
- obdurate
- opinionated
- ornery
- persevering
- persistent
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- rebellious
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- relentless
- remorseless
- rigid
- self-willed
- set in one's ways
- single-minded
- steadfast
- stiff-necked
- tenacious
- tough
- unbendable
- unbending
- uncompromising
- unmanageable
- unreasonable
- unrelenting
- unshakable
- untoward
- unyielding
- willful
adjective as in decided
adjective as in dogged
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in extreme
Strongest matches
adjective as in firm
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in fixed
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in formal
adjective as in frigid
adjective as in hard-boiled
adjective as in hardened
Strongest matches
adjective as in hard-line
adjective as in implacable
verb as in relax
verb as in rest
Strong matches
verb as in stoop
Strongest match
Weak matches
verb as in straighten
verb as in thaw
verb as in unfold
verb as in unwind
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On this page you'll find 2398 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to un-bending, such as: implacable, inescapable, merciless, relentless, unrelenting, and adamant.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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