Meanings
- not comparableThat does not give up in despair; indomitable.
In another demonstration of the resilience and never-say-die spirit that is built into this United side, they hunted Blackpool down once they had the whiff of victory and there was almost an inevitability about the final outcome once they found a foothold in the game.
2011 January 25, Phil McNulty, “Blackpool 2 - 3 Man Utd”, in BBC
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveimpossible to subdue
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Finnish peräänantamaton
- peräänantamatonnot giving up
German beharrlich
- beharrlichnot giving up
Romanian stăruitor
- stăruitornot giving up
Cite this entry
never-say-die. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/never-say-die
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