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See definition of yielding on Dictionary.com
  • adj.accommodating
  • adj.soft, flexible

synonyms for yielding

  • humble
  • passive
  • resigned
  • acquiescent
  • biddable
  • compliant
  • docile
  • easy
  • flexible
  • nonresistant
  • obedient
  • pliable
  • pliant
  • putty in one's hands
  • submissive
  • tractable
See also synonyms for: unyielding

antonyms for yielding

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  • hard
  • obstinate
  • resistant
  • rigid
  • solid
  • unflexible
  • hard
  • inflexible
  • rigid
  • stiff
  • unflexible
  • obstinate
  • resistant
  • solid
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How to use yielding in a sentence

Mechanization drove down labor costs, which made marginally yielding lands profitable.
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Yielding to the advice of his friends, he put on it a price the amount of which abashed him.
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More foolish, more culpable weakness was never shown than in thus yielding to these schemes.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOOD
My own yielding folly alone is to blame, and I shall take shame to myself for ever.
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A trap-like compound, with somewhat the aspect of serpentine, but yielding with difficulty to the knife.
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Many a time and oft had she pleaded, with tears, to the remorseless girl who looked so soft and yielding.
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A sharp action ensued of four hours, without either side yielding an inch of their original ground.
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It was drawn and gray, but there was no sign of yielding or consternation in the half-closed eyes.
WINSTON OF THE PRAIRIEHAROLD BINDLOSS
To give is to act; we do not suffer any pains by our liberality, nor by yielding to the importunity or necessity of postulants.
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She quietly passed away yielding up her spirit in a yearning desire to be united forever with her divine Son in heaven.
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WORDS RELATED TO YIELDING

  • acceptance
  • accession
  • acquiescence
  • admission
  • admitting
  • affirmation
  • allowance
  • allowing
  • assent
  • assertion
  • asservation
  • avowal
  • compliance
  • conceding
  • concession
  • concurrence
  • confession
  • confirmation
  • corroboration
  • declaration
  • profession
  • ratification
  • realization
  • recognition
  • yielding
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.