yielding

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

protesting, resistant, resisting, unyielding;

Near Antonyms

defiant;

contrary, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, insurgent, intractable, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly, untoward;

balky, perverse, wayward, wrongheaded;

headstrong, willful (or wilful);

indomitable;

undisciplined, unmanageable;

dissident, nonconformist;

Related Words

forbearing, impassive, long-suffering, patient, stoic (or stoical), uncomplaining;

agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, docile, guidable, obedient, pliable, pliant, subordinate, tractable, willing;

obeisant, submissive, surrendering;

amiable, obliging;

slavish, subservient;

disciplined, governable, manageable;

apathetic, uncaring, unresponsive;