Word.ws English Dictionary

unflinching

unflinching adjective: without flinching; staying committed despite any difficulty; steadfast.

Adjective

unflinching (not comparable)

  1. Without flinching; staying committed despite any difficulty; steadfast.
    • Can an honest, upright and Christian man, go into these conflicts, and with unflinching firmness stand up for all that is good, and oppose all that is evil, in whatever party it may be found, without a measure of moral courage such as few can command?1837, Catharine E. Beecher, An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, page 126
    • […] I abandoned myself implicitly to the guidance of my wife, and entered with an unflinching heart into the intricacies of her studies.1839 November, Edgar A[llan] Poe, “Morella”, in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, published 1840, →OCLC, page 10

unflinching meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

unflinching in Hindi

unflinching
अडिग aḍig, अडोल aḍol

unflinching in Tamil

சளைக்காத

unflinching in Urdu

ثابت قدم

unflinching in Bengali

unflinching
কঠোর koṭhōr
unflinching, categorical
দৃঢ় dɾiṛho
More languagesFewer languages
unflinching in Malayalam
പതറാത്ത, ഭയന്നു പിന്മാറാത്ത, ചൂളാത്ത, അറച്ചു പുറകോട്ടു മാറാത്ത
unflinching in Kannada
ನಿಸ್ಸಂಕೋಚದ, ಸ್ಥಿರವಾದ, ದೃಢವಾದ, ಹೆದರದ
unflinching in Assamese
সমান xman

Examples of unflinching in a sentence

  • If only she would wake and close her mouth, mentally prayed the outwardly unflinching girl.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia...
  • For all the glories of the Ferguson end-game, Manchester City’s rise and Arsenal’s unflinching desire to finish in the top four and occasionally win the FA Cup, this is now Chelsea’s mini-era.2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in the Guardian:

Origin of unflinching

From un- + flinching.

Words formed from unflinching

Questions about unflinching

What does unflinching mean?
Unflinching means without flinching; staying committed despite any difficulty; steadfast.
What is unflinching in Hindi?
Unflinching in Hindi is अडिग (aḍig), अडोल (aḍol). See Unflinching meaning in Hindi.
How do you use unflinching in a sentence?
If only she would wake and close her mouth, mentally prayed the outwardly unflinching girl.
What part of speech is unflinching?
Unflinching is an adjective.

Words near unflinching in the dictionary

  1. unflickeringly
  2. unflighted
  3. unflightworthy
  4. unflighty
  5. unflimsy
  6. unflinching
  7. unflinchingly
  8. unflinchingness
  9. unflinty
  10. unflip
  11. unflippable

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unflinching (page history and authors); अडिग (Hindi) (page history and authors); unflinching (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unflinching (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); কঠোর (Bengali) (page history and authors); unflinching (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); unflinching (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); সমান (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unflinching.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unflinching. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.