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Synonyms & Antonyms of relenting
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- adamant,
- adamantine,
- bullheaded,
- dogged,
- hard,
- hardened,
- hardheaded,
- hard-nosed,
- headstrong,
- immovable,
- implacable,
- inconvincible,
- inflexible,
- intransigent,
- mulish,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- opinionated,
- ossified,
- pat,
- pertinacious,
- perverse,
- pigheaded,
- self-opinionated,
- self-willed,
- stiff-necked,
- stubborn,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding,
- willful
- (or wilful)
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Antonyms & Near Antonyms for relenting
relenting
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of relenting (Entry 2 of 2)
- the supervisor finally relented in the face of the petition, and allowed employees to take longer lunch breaks
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- the fury of the storm relented, and the next day the sun finally broke through the clouds
Synonyms for relenting
- abating,
- declining,
- decreasing,
- de-escalating,
- diminishing,
- draining (away),
- dropping (off),
- dwindling,
- dying (away or down or out),
- easing,
- ebbing,
- falling,
- falling away,
- lessening,
- letting up,
- lowering,
- moderating,
- palling,
- phasing down,
- ratcheting (down)
- also racheting (down),
- receding,
- remitting,
- shrinking,
- subsiding,
- tapering,
- tapering off,
- waning
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