Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Unwilling to grant concessions or negotiate; inflexible.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not compromising; admitting of no compromise; not complying; inflexible; unyielding: as, uncompromising hostility.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not admitting of compromise; making no truce or concessions; obstinate; unyielding; inflexible.
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- adjective
inflexible andunwilling tonegotiate or makeconcessions - adjective
principled
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not making concessions
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Examples
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The word "uncompromising" sounds like the perfect word to describe Tilda Swinton.
John Farr: She Who Dares: The Astonishing Work Of Tilda Swinton John Farr 2011
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The word "uncompromising" sounds like the perfect word to describe Tilda Swinton.
John Farr: She Who Dares: The Astonishing Work Of Tilda Swinton John Farr 2011
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The word "uncompromising" sounds like the perfect word to describe Tilda Swinton.
John Farr: She Who Dares: The Astonishing Work Of Tilda Swinton John Farr 2011
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Now, however, the truth is set out in uncompromising terms.
Mendacity, Incompetence, Spin, Panic: a Typical Labour Day 2008
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Now, however, the truth is set out in uncompromising terms.
Archive 2008-05-11 2008
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"No more fugue" -- there was a finality in the phrase uncompromising as the "no more sea" of the Apocalyptic vision.
The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895
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The snow lay in uncompromising whiteness, thick over all the world – a kindly shelter for the young grain and covering for the soil; but Fleda's spirits, just then in another mood, saw in it only the cold refusal to hope, and the barren check to exertion.
Queechy 1854
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Suddenly the lightning and thunder of at least twenty fusils burst upon our astonished senses from the gully, and awoke us to a startling consciousness of imminent danger, magnified beyond conception, by the almost magical appearance of more than one hundred warriors, erect in uncompromising enmity - both before and on either side of us, at the terrifying distance (since measured) of thirty steps.
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WASHINGTON Reuters - A testy President Barack Obama on Tuesday expressed frustration at his own Democrats for attacking him over his tax-cut deal with Republicans, who he called uncompromising "hostage takers."
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WASHINGTON Reuters - A testy President Barack Obama on Tuesday expressed frustration at his own Democrats for attacking him over his tax-cut deal with Republicans, who he called uncompromising "hostage takers."
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