unrelenting

adj.不妥协的

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
unrelenting (adjective)
1.
not softening or yielding in determination - hard stern an unrelenting leader
2.
not letting up or weakening in vigor or pace - constant the unrelenting struggle
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
unrelenting (adjective)
1.
sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion
SYNONYMS:
adamant, adamantine, bullheaded, dogged, hard, hardened, hardheaded, hard-nosed, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inconvincible, inflexible, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, opinionated, ossified, pat, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff-necked, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful ( wilful)
RELATED WORDS:
anal-retentive, obsessive; wayward, wrongheaded; determined, hell-bent, inexorable, persistent, relentless, resolved, set, single-minded, steadfast, stouthearted, tenacious, unflinching; firm, hard-line, hard-shell ( hard-shelled), iron, severe, stern, strict; hidebound, narrow-minded, rigid; bloody-minded [], cantankerous; contrary, cussed; contumacious, disobedient, froward, insubordinate, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory, uncooperative, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly; defiant, insurgent, mutinous; indomitable, invincible, unconquerable; confirmed, inveterate, unregenerate; demanding, exacting
NEAR ANTONYMS:
docile, obedient, placable, submissive, tractable; accepting, persuadable, receptive, responsive, willing; governable, manageable, reasonable, temperate; slavish, subservient
acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, flexible, pliable, pliant, relenting, yielding
unrelenting (adjective)
2.
showing no signs of slackening or yielding in one's purpose
SYNONYMS:
determined, dogged, grim, implacable, relentless, unappeasable, unflinching, unrelenting
RELATED WORDS:
persevering, persistent, tenacious; hard, hardheaded, headstrong, intractable, mulish, obdurate, opinionated, peevish, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-willed, stubborn, uncooperative, willful ( wilful); merciless, ruthless, unforgiving
NEAR ANTONYMS:
slackening, softening, yielding; impotent, invertebrate, slack, spineless, weak; complaisant, obliging, pliable, pliant
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