yielding

yield·ing

adjective \-diŋ\

Definition of YIELDING

1

: productive <a high-yielding wheat>

2

: lacking rigidity or stiffness : flexible

3

: disposed to submit or comply <a docile and yielding temperament>

Examples of YIELDING

1. She has a gentle, yielding temperament.
2. The seat was made with a soft and yielding material.

First Known Use of YIELDING

1533

Related to YIELDING

Synonyms

acquiescent, nonresistant, resigned, tolerant, tolerating, unresistant, passive

Antonyms

protesting, resistant, resisting, unyielding

Related Words

forbearing, impassive, long-suffering, patient, stoic (or stoical), uncomplaining; agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, conformable, conformist, docile, guidable, law-abiding, obedient, pliable, pliant, subordinate, tractable, willing; obeisant, submissive, surrendering; amiable, obliging; slavish, subservient; disciplined, governable, manageable; apathetic, uncaring, unresponsive

Near Antonyms

defiant; contrary, contumacious, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly, untoward; balky, perverse, wayward, wrongheaded; headstrong, willful (or wilful); indomitable; undisciplined, unmanageable; dissident, nonconformist