Not bending; not suffering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; applied to material things
incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances; "a rigid disciplinarian"; "an inflexible law"; "an unbending will to dominate"
Unyielding in nature; unchangeable; fixed; applied to abstract ideas; as, unbending truths
If you describe a person or their behaviour as unbending, you mean that they have very strict beliefs and attitudes, which they are unwilling to change. He was rigid and unbending. her unbending opposition to the old regime. = inflexible. unwilling to change your opinions, decisions etc
Unyielding in will; not subject to persuasion or influence; inflexible; resolute; applied to persons
If someone unbends, their attitude becomes less strict than it was. In her dying days the old Queen unbent a little. unbent to relax and start behaving in a less formal way
release from mental strain, tension, or formality; "unbend the mind from absorbing too much information" free from flexure; "unbend a bow" unfasten, as a sail, from a spar or a stay