yielding

yield·ing

adj \-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

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