yielding
yield·ing
adj \-diŋ\Definition of YIELDING
1
: productive <a high-yielding wheat>
2
: lacking rigidity or stiffness : flexible
3
: disposed to submit or comply <a docile and yielding temperament>
See Examples of YIELDING
- She has a gentle, yielding temperament.
- The seat was made with a soft and yielding material.
First Known Use of YIELDING
1533
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Related Words: forbearing, impassive, long-suffering, patient, stoic (or stoical), uncomplaining; agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, conformable, conformist, docile, guidable, law-abiding, obedient, pliable, pliant, subordinate, tractable, willing; obeisant, submissive, surrendering; amiable, obliging; slavish, subservient; disciplined, governable, manageable; apathetic, uncaring, unresponsive
Near Antonyms: defiant; contrary, contumacious, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly, untoward; balky, perverse, wayward, wrongheaded; headstrong, willful (or wilful); indomitable; undisciplined, unmanageable; dissident, nonconformist
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