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unbending
Synonyms and Antonyms of unbending
- the commanding officer's unbending reserve when dealing with subordinates
aloof, antisocial, asocial, buttoned-up, cold, cold-eyed, cool, detached, distant, dry, frosty, offish, remote, standoff, standoffish, unclubbable, unsociable
boon, clubbable (also clubable), clubby, companionable, convivial, extroverted (also extraverted), gregarious, outgoing
communicative, expansive, garrulous, talkative
- the school's new headmaster is reputed to be an unbending disciplinarian
adamant, adamantine, bullheaded, dogged, hard, hard-nosed, hardened, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inconvincible, inflexible, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ossified, pat, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff-necked, stubborn, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful (or wilful)
determined, hell-bent, inexorable, persistent, relentless, resolved, set, single-minded, steadfast, stouthearted, tenacious, unflinching
firm, hard-line, hard-shell (or hard-shelled), iron, severe, stern, strict
hidebound, narrow-minded, rigid
bloody-minded [chiefly British], cantankerous
contumacious, disobedient, froward, insubordinate, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory, uncooperative, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly
indomitable, invincible, unconquerable
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