Impossible to subdue.

synonyms: never-say-die, unsubduable.

Roget 861: courageous, brave; valiant, valorous; gallant, intrepid; spirited, spiritful^†; high-spirited, high-mettled^†; mettlesome, plucky; manly, manful; resolute; stout, stout-hearted; iron-hearted, lion-hearted; heart of oak; Penthesilean.    bold, bold-spirited; daring, audacious; fearless, dauntless, dreadless^†, aweless; undaunted, unappalled, undismayed, unawed, unblanched, unabashed, unalarmed, unflinching, unshrinking^†, unblanching^†, unapprehensive; confident, self-reliant; bold as a lion, bold as brass.    enterprising, adventurous; venturous, venturesome; dashing, chivalrous; soldierly etc. (warlike) 722; heroic.    fierce, savage; pugnacious etc. (bellicose) 720.    strong-minded, hardy, doughty; firm etc. (stable) 150; determined etc. (resolved) 604; dogged, indomitable etc. (persevering) 604.1. up to, up to the scratch; upon one's mettle; reassured etc. v.; unfeared^†, undreaded^†.    ... show more

Roget 159: strong, mighty, vigorous, forcible, hard, adamantine, stout, robust, sturdy, hardy, powerful, potent, puissant, valid.    resistless, irresistible, invincible, proof against, impregnable, unconquerable, indomitable, dominating, inextinguishable, unquenchable; incontestable; more than a match for; overpowering, overwhelming; all powerful, all sufficient; sovereign.    able-bodied; athletic; Herculean, Cyclopean, Atlantean^†; muscular, brawny, wiry, well-knit, broad-shouldered, sinewy, strapping, stalwart, gigantic.    manly, man-like, manful; masculine, male, virile.    unweakened^†, unallayed, unwithered^†, unshaken, unworn, unexhausted^†; in full force, in full swing; in the plenitude of power.    stubborn, thick-ribbed, made of iron, deep-rooted; strong as a lion, strong as a horse, strong as an ox, strong as brandy; sound as a roach; in fine feather, in high feather; built like a brick shithouse; like a giant refreshed.    ... show more

Roget 604: resolved etc. v.; determined; strong-willed, strong-minded; resolute etc. (brave) 861; self-possessed; decided, definitive, peremptory, tranchant^†; unhesitating, unflinching, unshrinking^†; firm, iron, gritty [U.S.], indomitable, game to the backbone; inexorable, relentless, not to be shaken, not to be put down; tenax propositi [Lat.]; inflexible etc. (hard) 323; obstinate etc. 606; steady etc. (persevering) 604.1. earnest, serious; set upon, bent upon, intent upon.    steel against, proof against; in utrumque paratus [Lat.].    ... show more

Roget 604a: persevering, constant; steady, steadfast; undeviating, unwavering, unfaltering, unswerving, unflinching, unsleeping^†, unflagging, undrooping^†; steady as time; unrelenting, unintermitting^†, unremitting; plodding; industrious etc. 682; strenuous etc. 686; pertinacious; persisting, persistent.    solid, sturdy, staunch, stanch, true to oneself; unchangeable etc. 150; unconquerable etc. (strong) 159; indomitable, game to the last, indefatigable, untiring, unwearied, never tiring.    ... show more

Roget 719: resisting etc. v.; resistive, resistant; refractory etc. (disobedient) 742; recalcitrant, renitent; up in arms.    repulsive, repellant.    proof against; unconquerable etc. (strong) 159; stubborn, unconquered; indomitable etc. (persevering) 604.1; unyielding etc. (obstinate) 606.    ... show more