Synonyms of relenting

relenting 1 of 2

adjective

1

as in complying

Synonyms & Similar Words

• complying
• yielding
• pliant
• compliant
• acquiescent
• obedient
• amenable
• submissive
• pliable
• docile
• receptive
• agreeable
• tractable
• accepting
• placable
• willing
• flexible
• responsive
• manageable
• persuadable
• reasonable
• slavish
• temperate
• subservient
• governable

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unrelenting
• adamant
• obstinate
• stubborn
• unyielding
• implacable
• obdurate
• unbending
• intransigent
• wilful
• hard
• uncompromising
• willful
• inflexible
• dogged
• hardened
• pat
• mulish
• perverse
• immovable
• pertinacious
• adamantine
• headstrong
• hardheaded
• ossified
• opinionated
• obsessive
• bullheaded
• pigheaded
• hard-nosed
• stiff-necked
• self-willed
• inconvincible
• self-opinionated
• wayward
• anal-retentive
• wrongheaded

2

as in merciful

Synonyms & Similar Words

• merciful
• forgiving
• loving
• benevolent
• charitable
• benign
• kind
• sympathetic
• kindly
• warm
• brotherly
• compassionate
• benignant
• altruistic
• humanitarian
• humane
• philanthropic
• kindhearted
• magnanimous
• sweet
• warmhearted
• good
• tender
• good-hearted
• philanthropical
• noble
• tenderhearted
• high-minded

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• vindictive
• vengeful
• retaliatory
• revengeful
• resentful
• unforgiving
• avenging
• uncharitable

relenting

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verb

present participle of relent

1

as in succumbing

to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)

the supervisor finally relented in the face of the petition, and allowed employees to take longer lunch breaks

Synonyms & Similar Words

• succumbing
• submitting
• conceding
• surrendering
• bowing
• budging
• capitulating
• yielding
• blinking
• giving in
• quitting
• acquiescing
• throwing in the sponge
• throwing in the towel
• knuckling under
• deferring
• saying uncle

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• resisting
• fighting
• contending
• opposing
• confronting
• facing
• objecting
• defying
• combating
• meeting
• countering
• battling
• combatting
• withstanding
• repelling
• thwarting
• holding off
• breasting

2

as in decreasing

to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually

the fury of the storm relented, and the next day the sun finally broke through the clouds

Synonyms & Similar Words

• decreasing
• subsiding
• diminishing
• easing
• declining
• falling
• shrinking
• vanishing
• ebbing
• waning
• tapering
• lessening
• moderating
• abating
• receding
• lowering
• weakening
• dwindling
• dying (away or down or out)
• dropping (off)
• remitting
• draining (away)
• falling away
• ratcheting (down)
• tapering off
• evaporating
• palling
• racheting (down)
• letting up
• phasing down
• de-escalating
• compressing
• constricting
• collapsing
• contracting
• slackening
• alleviating
• condensing
• melting (away)
• slowing (down)
• fading (away)
• tailing (off)
• frittering (away)
• giving out
• relaxing
• petering (out)
• flagging
• sinking
• deflating
• caving (in)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• increasing
• growing
• rising
• intensifying
• building
• expanding
• swelling
• mounting
• escalating
• accumulating
• enlarging
• soaring
• waxing
• burgeoning
• mushrooming
• appearing
• emerging
• picking up
• snowballing
• ballooning
• showing up
• bourgeoning
• lengthening
• elongating
• blowing up
• distending