yielding

adjaccommodating

adjsoft, flexible

Synonyms for yielding

adj accommodating

Antonyms for yielding

Word Origin & History

Old English gield "payment, sum of money" (see yield (v.)); extended sense of "production" (as of crops) is first attested mid-15c. Earliest English sense survives in financial "yield from investments."

Example Sentences for yielding

One of the most delightful things about temptation is yielding now and then.

But day followed day, and still they waited in vain for any sign of yielding.

All at once an impulse of yielding which was really freedom came to her.

Locke, yielding to the prejudices of the time, took the same ground.

Peppajee eyed him comprehendingly, but there was no yielding in his brown, wrinkled face.

Far and wide lay a ruined country, yielding nothing but desolation.

I am afraid of breaking off everything, or of yielding everything.

The substance of the wall seemed as permeable and yielding as light.

His ax swung up and down, bit into something soft and yielding.

Anger gave way to despair, decision to weakness and yielding.

yielding

Synonyms for yielding

Antonyms for yielding

acquiescence

acquiescent

biddable

capitulation

compliance

yielding

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Antonyms for yielding

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acquiescence

acquiescent

biddable

capitulation

compliance

Synonyms for yielding

acknowledgment