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unpliant

unpliant adjective: not pliant.

Adjective

unpliant (comparative more unpliant, superlative most unpliant)

  1. Not pliant.
    • The brawny craftsman finds it no child's play to mould his unpliant rugged masses; neither is guidance of men a dilettantism: what it becomes when treated as a dilettantism, we may see!1839 (indicated as 1840), Thomas Carlyle, “Laissez-Faire”, in Chartism, London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, pages 52–53

Forms of unpliant

comparativemore unpliant
superlativemost unpliant

Origin of unpliant

From un- + pliant.

Words formed from unpliant

Questions about unpliant

What does unpliant mean?
Unpliant means not pliant.
What part of speech is unpliant?
Unpliant is an adjective.

Words near unpliant in the dictionary

  1. unpliability
  2. unpliable
  3. unpliableness
  4. unpliably
  5. unpliancy
  6. unpliant
  7. unpliantly
  8. unplied
  9. unplight
  10. unplighted
  11. unplodding

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