Synonyms for unpliable
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : plahy-uh-buh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈplaɪ ə bəl |
Top 10 synonyms for unpliable
- contrary
- disastrous
- fractious
- hang tough
- hapless
- hard-line
- headstrong
- ill-starred
- immovable
- inauspicious
- incompliant
- inconvenient
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- inimical
- inopportune
- insoluble
- intractable
- irritating
- locked
- locked in
- luckless
- misfortunate
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pig-headed
- pigheaded
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- set in stone
- star-crossed
- tenacious
- tough
- tough nut
- tough-nut
- unbending
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- unfavorable
- ungovernable
- unhappy
- unlucky
- unmanageable
- unpliable
- unpropitious
- unruly
- untimely
- unyielding
- vexatious
- wayward
- wild
- willful
Définition of unpliable
Origin :- late 14c., from Old French ploiable "flexible, bendable," from plier "to bend" (see ply (n.)). Related: Pliably, pliability.
- As in intractable/intransigent : adj difficult, stubborn
- As in untoward : adj troublesome
- As in intractable : adj difficult
- Her very lips were stiff and unpliable with the force of the blood which rushed to her head.
- Extract from : « Ruth » by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- In vain, anxious to be let off, was I restrained in utterance—cold, unpliable.
- Extract from : « Confession » by W. Gilmore Simms
- How grotesque her features were, so hard and unpliable seemed her flesh.
- Extract from : « The Land of Look Behind » by Paul Cameron Brown
- They are clumsy to place, burdensome to carry, and stiff and unpliable to the chafing point.
- Extract from : « Camp and Trail » by Stewart Edward White
- Water-glass soaps do not dissolve readily in water, they make but little suds, and render the skin hard and unpliable.
- Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 » by Various
- All her life, as it seemed, she had been accustomed to mediate between these two unpliable and stubborn temperaments.
- Extract from : « The Market-Place » by Harold Frederic
Antonyms for unpliable
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