Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not yielding; inflexible.
- adjective Aloof and often antisocial; extremely reserved.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not suffering flexure; not bending.
- Unyielding; inflexible; firm.
- Given up to relaxation or amusement.
- noun A relaxing; remission from a strain; temporary ease.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not bending; not suffering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; -- applied to material things.
- adjective Unyielding in will; not subject to persuasion or influence; inflexible; resolute; -- applied to persons.
- adjective Unyielding in nature; unchangeable; fixed; -- applied to abstract ideas.
- adjective rare Devoted to relaxation or amusement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
inflexible and notyielding - adjective very
reserved ,aloof andantisocial - verb Present participle of
unbend .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances
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Examples
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Constance had been wondering how she could inform Tony that his aunt and sister had arrived, without unbending from the dignified silence of the past three days.
Jerry Junior 1907
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But the Alexandrine, by its pause in the midst, is a tardy and stately measure; and the word unbending, one of the most sluggish and slow which our language affords, cannot much accelerate its motion.
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At various times Lady Huntingdon expressed her religious experience in verse, and the manful vigor of her school of faith recalls the unbending confidence of Job, for she was not a stranger to affliction.
The Story of the Hymns and Tunes Theron Brown 1873
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Strict, kind of unbending fundamentalist religions is the way they were both brought up.
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Strict, kind of unbending fundamentalist religions is the way they were both brought up.
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Strict, kind of unbending fundamentalist religions is the way they were both brought up.
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Strict, kind of unbending fundamentalist religions is the way they were both brought up.
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Strict, kind of unbending fundamentalist religions is the way they were both brought up.
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Strict, kind of unbending fundamentalist religions is the way they were both brought up.
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Strict, kind of unbending fundamentalist religions is the way they were both brought up.
oroboros commented on the word unbending
Contronymic in the sense: unyielding vs. remove a bend.
January 31, 2007
seanahan commented on the word unbending
Also, when you bend a straight line, you get an L. When you unbend it, you are again bending it.
February 1, 2007