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- a person too yielding to even stand up for his own rights
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- after sitting on a hard bench for hours, I was happy to sink into the sofa's yielding cushions
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yielding
nounSynonyms & Antonyms of yielding (Entry 2 of 3)
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- balkiness,
- contrariness,
- contumacy,
- defiance,
- disobedience,
- frowardness,
- insubordination,
- intractability,
- noncompliance,
- obstreperousness,
- rebelling,
- rebellion,
- rebelliousness,
- recalcitrance,
- refractoriness,
- self-will,
- unruliness,
- waywardness,
- willfulness
yielding
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of yielding (Entry 3 of 3)
- I finally yielded to temptation and had a bowl of ice cream
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- I expect that stock to yield at least 14% profit this year
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- after initially balking at the order, the soldier yielded when the commanding officer threatened a formal charge of insubordination
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- the sort of embarrassing question that seldom yields an honest answer
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- the door soon yielded to the battering ram
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- refusing to yield the city to enemy troops
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- she yielded herself to temptation and booked a month-long vacation in the Bahamas like she'd wanted to for years
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“Yielding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yielding. Accessed 16 May. 2022.
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The first known use of yielding was in 1533
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