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yieldingadjective receiving or enduring without offering resistancea person too yielding to even stand up for his own rights acquiescent, nonresistant, passive, resigned, tolerant, tolerating, unresistant forbearing, impassive, long-suffering, patient, stoic(or stoical), uncomplainingagreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, conformable, conformist, docile, guidable, law-abiding, obedient, pliable, pliant, subordinate, tractable, willingobeisant, submissive, surrenderingamiable, obligingslavish, subservientdisciplined, governable, manageableapathetic, uncaring, unresponsive protesting, resistant, resisting, unyielding defiantcontrary, contumacious, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly, untowardbalky, perverse, wayward, wrongheadedheadstrong, willful(or wilful)indomitableundisciplined, unmanageabledissident, nonconformist not stiff in structureafter sitting on a hard bench for hours, I was happy to sink into the sofa's yielding cushions droopy, flaccid, floppy, lank, limp flabby, mushy, semisoft, soft, squashy, squishydelicate, flimsy, insubstantialelastic, flexible, lax, loose, pliant, relaxed, resilient, springy, stretchy, supple inflexible, resilient, rigid, stiff, sturdy, tense firm, hard, indurated, solid, sound, strongbrittle, crispcompact, dense, substantial to give up and cease resistance (as to a liking, temptation, or habit)I finally yielded to temptation and had a bowl of ice cream bowing, caving (in), giving in, submitting, succumbing, surrendering catering (to), gratifying, indulging, wallowingacquiescing (to), conceding (to)buckling (under), knuckling undergiving over (to) holding off, resisting battling, breasting, combating(or combatting), confronting, countering, defying, facing, fighting, meeting, objecting, opposing, repellingthwarting, withstandingrejectingbridling, checking, constraining, curbing, inhibiting, restraining, stifling to produce as revenueI expect that stock to yield at least 14% profit this year bearing, giving, paying, returning bringing in, nettingaffording, furnishing, providing, supplyingpaying off to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)after initially balking at the order, the soldier yielded when the commanding officer threatened a formal charge of insubordination blinking, bowing, budging, capitulating, conceding, giving in, knuckling under, quitting, relenting, submitting, succumbing, surrendering acquiescingdeferring saying uncle, throwing in the towel(also throwing in the sponge) resisting contending, fighting, holding offbattling, breasting, combating(or combatting), confronting, countering, defying, facing, meeting, objecting, opposing, repellingthwarting, withstanding to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)the sort of embarrassing question that seldom yields an honest answer begetting, breeding, bringing, bringing about, bringing on, catalyzing, causing, creating, doing, drawing on, effecting, effectuating, engendering, generating, inducing, invoking, making, occasioning, producing, prompting, resulting (in), spawning, translating (into), working conducing (to), contributing (to)deciding, determiningbeginning, establishing, fathering, founding, inaugurating, initiating, innovating, instituting, introducing, launching, pioneering, setting, setting up, startingadvancing, cultivating, developing, encouraging, forwarding, fostering, furthering, nourishing, nurturing, promotingenacting, rendering, turning out bringing forth, giving rise to impeding, limiting, restrictingclamping down (on), cracking down (on), crushing, dampening, putting down, quashing, quelling, repressing, smothering, squashing, squelching, stifling, subduing, suppressingarresting, checking, controlling, curbing, inhibiting, reining (in), restraining, retardingcanning(slang), killing, snuffing (out), stillingabolishing, demolishing, destroying, extinguishing, liquidating, quenching to fall down or in as a result of physical pressurethe door soon yielded to the battering ram buckling, caving (in), collapsing, crumpling, foundering, giving, going, going out, imploding, tumbling deflating, flattening, melting, melting downbreaking, breaking down, conking (out), crashing, dying, failing, giving out, stallingbursting, shattering, smashing, splintering, splittingcracking, crumbling, popping, snapping giving way inflating, rising, swelling to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duressrefusing to yield the city to enemy troops ceding, coughing up, delivering, giving up, handing over, laying down, relinquishing, rendering, surrendering, turning in, turning over committing, consigning, entrusting(also intrusting), transferringforfeiting, releasing, waivingabnegating, renouncing, resigningabandoning, deserting, discarding, forsaking, parting (with), shedding keeping, retaining, withholding to give (oneself) over to something especially unrestrainedlyshe yielded herself to temptation and booked a month-long vacation in the Bahamas like she'd wanted to for years abandoning, delivering, giving up, indulging, surrendering overdoing, overindulgingbasking, luxuriating, reveling(or revelling), rolling, wallowing denying abstaining (from), eschewing, forbearing, forgoing(also foregoing), refraining (from)checking, inhibiting, restraining in 1533 |