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🪨 Firmly fixed 🙅 Not willing to change
unbudging

unbudging

7.8
Firmly fixed in place and not able to be moved
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈbʌdʒɪŋ/
translation icon : inmovible
  • The statue was so heavy and unbudging that it took a crane to move it.

Examples

  • Despite their efforts, the old door remained unbudging in its frame.

  • Her opinion on the matter was completely unbudging, no matter what anyone said.

  • The unbudging rock blocked the path completely.

  • She remained unbudging in her decision to leave.

  • The rock was unbudging despite the efforts of the construction crew to move it.

  • Their decision was unbudging, and nothing could change their minds about the agreement.

  • He stood unbudging at the entrance, refusing to let anyone pass without a ticket.

Synonyms

unmovable
vsunbudging
1 4.2

Not able to be changed or lifted from its place

is also resistant to being changed rather than only not moving

Antonyms

flexible
31 3.4

Able to bend easily without breaking and return to shape

movable
13 2.5

Can be carried to another place

How Movable

movable
13 2.5
unbudging
7.8
stable
473 2.3

Surface Forms

unbudging positive

Morphology

unbudging = budging (transparent) = un + budge + ing

Formed by productive negation 'un-' added to 'budging' (budge + -ing), so the meaning 'not moving' is directly compositional.

Etymology

Unbudging comes from un- meaning 'not' and budge meaning 'to move', so imagine a heavy object that refuses to move. That's why unbudging describes something fixed in place and hard to push.