unbowed

[ uhn-boud ]

adjective

1. not bowed or bent.
2. not yielding or submitting, as to defeat; not subjugated:

   Even when their country was occupied, the people of Norway remained unbowed.

unbowed

/ ʌnˈbaʊd /

adjective

1. not bowed or bent
2. free or unconquered

Word History and Origins

Origin of unbowed¹

1325–75; Middle English; un- ¹ + bow ¹( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

The PTI is consistently popular and able to mobilise, and seems unbowed by the pressure.

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Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a veteran firebrand from the radical France Unbowed party, called for the "most powerful mobilisation possible" in national marches.

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Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a veteran firebrand from the radical France Unbowed party, has called for marches across France and for the "most powerful mobilisation possible".

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Arriving for talks with the president, along with the leaders of the far-left France Unbowed, the Socialists, Greens and Communists, Lucie Castets said they had come to remind the president to "respect the election result and bring the country out of the paralysis it has been plunged into".

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They are keen to push the message that his 365 days behind bars have left him unbowed.

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