🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

inflexível

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ĩfɫeˈsivɛl

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Unyielding/ʌnˈjiːldɪŋ/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Ele é inflexível em suas decisões."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Not giving way to pressure; hard or solid.

    "The unyielding rock formation stood tall against the relentless waves."
  2. 2

    Stubbornly resistant to change or persuasion.

    "Her unyielding determination to succeed inspired everyone around her."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'unyielding' is derived from the prefix 'un-' meaning 'not' and the root 'yield', which comes from the Old English 'gieldan', meaning 'to pay, to give'. The term evolved through Middle English, where 'yield' began to take on the meaning of 'to give way' or 'to submit', leading to the modern sense of being resistant or inflexible.

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