dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/uny_MW.json

{
  "unyielding":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": characterized by firmness or obduracy":[],
      ": characterized by lack of softness or flexibility":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the pioneers faced the challenge of settling the frontier with unyielding courage",
      "knead the dough until it feels reasonably unyielding",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "For Chris, a 12-time NBA All-Star, his father, Charles Paul, has been an unyielding pillar of support throughout his journey to the NBA and beyond. \u2014 Natasha Dye, PEOPLE.com , 15 June 2022",
      "Any crack in what has been the GOP\u2019s unyielding opposition to firearms legislation has to be counted as progress. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 13 June 2022",
      "The unyielding campaign has transformed once-thriving communities into vast debris fields. \u2014 Patrick J. Mcdonnell And Nabih Bulos, Anchorage Daily News , 5 June 2022",
      "This comes back to the earlier point that trying to use a hard and unyielding dichotomy can be difficult or misleading. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 4 June 2022",
      "For nearly nine years, these seven men had been prisoners to Australia\u2019s unyielding approach to refugees, detained for much of that time in miserable offshore camps. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
      "But the Democrat acknowledged Congress\u2019 unyielding rejection of previous legislation to curb the national epidemic of gun violence. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 27 May 2022",
      "The unyielding rules of tanchuang have resulted in some strange experiences. \u2014 Pei-lin Wu, Washington Post , 24 May 2022",
      "The atmosphere felt unyielding yet unbearably combustible. \u2014 The New Yorker , 23 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1565, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8y\u0113l-di\u014b"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "determined",
      "dogged",
      "grim",
      "implacable",
      "relentless",
      "unappeasable",
      "unflinching",
      "unrelenting"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-023115",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "unyieldingness":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the quality or state of being inflexible : pertinacity , rigidity":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-012820",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "unyoke":{
    "antonyms":[
      "join",
      "link",
      "unify",
      "unite"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to cease from work":[],
      ": to free from a yoke or harness":[],
      ": to take apart : disjoin":[],
      ": to unharness a draft animal":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "unyoke these two boats and tie them to the dock separately",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Small, snug, and unyoked from laptop or phone, AirPods are easy to wear for hours at a time, without a second thought. \u2014 Marina Koren, The Atlantic , 5 June 2019",
      "Men unyoked from their families, reeling from broken bonds, are the norm: some contrite and faithfully sending child support checks, others blowing all their money on meth, pickups and good times. \u2014 Longreads , 23 Apr. 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8y\u014dk"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "break up",
      "decouple",
      "disassociate",
      "disconnect",
      "disjoin",
      "disjoint",
      "dissever",
      "dissociate",
      "disunite",
      "divide",
      "divorce",
      "part",
      "ramify",
      "resolve",
      "separate",
      "sever",
      "split",
      "sunder",
      "uncouple",
      "unlink"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060512",
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "unyoung":{
    "antonyms":[
      "young",
      "youthful"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": not young":[
        "unyoung people"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1925, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8y\u0259\u014b"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "aged",
      "aging",
      "ageing",
      "ancient",
      "elderly",
      "geriatric",
      "long-lived",
      "old",
      "older",
      "over-the-hill",
      "senescent",
      "senior"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-211826",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  }
}