Synonyms for yielding
ˈyil dɪŋyield·ing

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1. yielding

   One who is docile is easily taught; one who is tractable is easily led; one who is pliant is easily bent in any direction; compliant represents one as inclined or persuaded to agreement with another's will. Compare DUTY.

   Synonyms:
   amenable, compliant, docile, gentle, manageable, obedient, pliable, pliant, submissive, tame, teachable, tractable

   Antonyms:
   determined, dogged, firm, inflexible, intractable, obstinate, opinionated, resolute, self-willed, stubborn, unyielding, wilful

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1. yielding

   Synonyms:
   conceding, producing, surrendering, supple, pliant, submissive, accommoding, unresisting

   Antonyms:
   firm, defiant, stiff, hard, unyielding, resisting, unfruitful

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1. giving up, yielding, surrendernoun

   a verbal act of admitting defeat

   Synonyms:
   fall, capitulation, forsaking, concession, surrender, resignation, giving up, conceding

   Antonyms:
   hard, uncompromising, stubborn, inflexible, unregenerate, obstinate, sturdy

2. concession, conceding, yieldingadjective

   the act of conceding or yielding

   Synonyms:
   concession, conceding, grant, surrender, giving up

   Antonyms:
   unregenerate, obstinate, sturdy, inflexible, uncompromising, hard, stubborn

3. yieldingadjective

   inclined to yield to argument or influence or control

   "a timid yielding person"

   Antonyms:
   sturdy, obstinate, inflexible, stubborn, uncompromising, hard, unregenerate

4. yieldingadjective

   lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure

   "a deep yielding layer of foam rubber"

   Antonyms:
   obstinate, inflexible, sturdy, unregenerate, stubborn, uncompromising, hard

5. yieldingadjective

   tending to give in or surrender or agree

   "too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments"- V.I.Parrington

   Antonyms:
   obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate, uncompromising, sturdy, hard, inflexible

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1. yieldingadjective

   Synonyms:
   submissive, complying, compliant, accommodating, unresisting, facile

2. yieldingadjective

   Synonyms:
   pliable, pliant, supple, flexible, flexile, plastic

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1. yieldingadjective

   Synonyms:
   compliant, tractable, submissive, amenable, unresisting, docile, indulgent, irresolute, facile, plastic, fictile, pliant, flexible

   Antonyms:
   unyielding

2. yieldingnoun

   Synonyms:
   production, bearing, surrender, relinquishment, submission, compliance, acquiescence, succumbing

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1. Eric Cantor:

   It's about how you create an environment for that collaborative effort to end up yielding one of the highest standards of living in the world.

2. Laozi:

   Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

3. Clarence Mitchell:

   They certainly will be encouraged to know the appeal is yielding results already and hopefully within that, there will be crucial bits of information the police can act upon.

4. Naveen Kunam:

   At this juncture I don't think China will attract material interest...it will be the lowest yielding market in the (GBI-EM) index. Plus the tail risk that they could devalue.

5. John Banzhaf:

   In all too many cases, we have political correctness now becoming political craziness, students are making demands -- faculty, deans, presidents are yielding, resigning [to them]. At the very least, they hold meetings and conferences. We didn't do that. Student groups made more than a dozen literally crazy demands with no rational basis and our university ignored them and nothing has happened.