uncompromising

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ compromising.

Adjective

uncompromising (comparative more uncompromising, superlative most uncompromising)

1. Inflexible and unwilling to negotiate or make concessions.
   • 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:

     But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.

   • 2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman‎^[1]:

     The visitors, who surprisingly dropped their talismanic record goalscorer Robbie Keane from their starting line-up for a competitive game for the first time in 13 years, adopted a direct and uncompromising approach.

2. Principled.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:obstinate

Translations

inflexible and unwilling to negotiate or make concessions

• Catalan: intransigent (ca)
• Czech: nekompromisní (cs)
• Danish: kompromisløs
• Dutch: compromisloos (nl)
• Finnish: tinkimätön (fi), ehdoton (fi), peräänantamaton (fi)
• French: carré (fr) m
• German: kompromisslos (de)
• Kazakh: бірбеткей (bırbetkei)
• Maori: tūkaha
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: egen (no), kompromissløs

• Polish: bezkompromisowy (pl)
• Russian: бескомпроми́ссный (ru) (beskompromíssnyj), непрекло́нный (ru) (nepreklónnyj)
• Spanish: inquebrantable (es), intransigente (es)
• Ukrainian: безкомпромі́сний (uk) (bezkompromísnyj)

principled

• Danish: kompromisløs
• Finnish: periksiantamaton
• German: kompromisslos (de)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kompromissløs

• Swedish: kompromisslös (sv)