yielding

The word “yielding” has 2 syllables: yield-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈjiːldɪŋ/

What is synonym and antonym for yielding?

In the thesaurus, “yielding” has 256 synonyms and 159 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for yielding along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for yielding

abandoning
abidance
abnegating
acquiescence
acquiescent
acquiescing
advancing
affording
agreeability
agreeable
amenability
amenable
amiable
apathetic
basking
bearing
begetting
beginning
biddable
blinking
bowing
breaking
breaking down
breeding
bringing
bringing about
bringing forth
bringing in
bringing on
buckling
budging
bursting
capitulating
capitulation
catalyzing
causing
ceding
collapsing
committing
compliance
compliant
complying
conceding
conformable
conformist
conformity
consigning
control
coughing up
cracking
crashing
creating
crumbling
crumpling
cultivating
deciding
deference
deferring
deflating
delicate
delivering
deserting
determining
developing
discarding
discipline
disciplined
docile
docility
doing
drawing on
droopy
dutifulness
dying
easy
effecting
effectuating
elastic
enacting
encouraging
engendering
entrusting
establishing
failing
fathering
flabby
flaccid
flattening
flexible
flimsy
floppy
forbearing
forfeiting
forsaking
forwarding
fostering
foundering
founding
furnishing
furthering
generating
giving
giving in
giving out
giving rise to
giving up
giving way
going
going out
governable
gratifying
guidable
handing over
humble
humility
impassive
imploding
inaugurating
inducing
indulging
inhibition
initiating
innovating
instituting
insubstantial
introducing
intrusting
invoking
knuckling under
lank
launching
law-abiding
lax
laying down
limp
long-suffering
loose
luxuriating
making
malleable
manageable
meekness
melting
melting down
modesty
mushy
netting
nonresistant
nourishing
nurturing
obedience
obedient
obeisance
obeisant
obliging
obsequiousness
occasioning
order
overdoing
overindulging
pappy
passive
patient
paying
paying off
pioneering
plastic
pliable
pliant
popping
producing
promoting
prompting
providing
pulpy
quaggy
quitting
relaxed
releasing
relenting
relinquishing
rendering
renouncing
repression
resigned
resigning
resilient
restraint
returning
reveling
revelling
rolling
saying uncle
semisoft
servility
setting
setting up
shattering
shedding
slavish
slavishness
smashing
snapping
soft
spawning
splintering
splitting
spongy
springy
squashy
squishy
stalling
starting
stoic
stoical
stretchy
submission
submissive
submissiveness
submitting
subordinate
subordinateness
subordination
subservience
subserviency
subservient
succumbing
supple
supplying
suppression
surrender
surrendering
teachableness
throwing in the sponge
throwing in the towel
tolerant
tolerating
tractability
tractable
tractableness
tractile
trainability
transferring
tumbling
turning in
turning out
turning over
uncaring
uncomplaining
unresistant
unresisting
unresponsive
waiving
wallowing
willing
working

Antonyms for yielding

abolishing
arresting
balkiness
balky
battling
breasting
bridling
brittle
canning
checking
combating
combatting
compact
confronting
constraining
contending
contrariness
contrary
controlling
contumacious
contumacy
countering
crisp
crushing
curbing
dampening
defiance
defiant
defying
demolishing
dense
denying
destroying
disobedience
disobedient
disrespect
dissent
dissidence
dissident
eschewing
extinguishing
facing
fighting
firm
forbearing
foregoing
forgoing
froward
frowardness
hard
hardheadedness
headstrong
holding off
impeding
impudence
incompliant
indomitable
indurated
inflating
inflexible
inhibiting
insolence
insubordinate
insubordination
insurgence
insurgency
insurgent
insurrection
intractability
intractable
keeping
killing
limiting
liquidating
meeting
misbehavior
mischievousness
mulishness
mutinous
mutinousness
mutiny
naughtiness
noncompliance
nonconformist
noncooperation
objecting
obstinacy
obstinate
obstinateness
obstreperousness
opposing
outbreak
perverse
perversity
pigheadedness
protesting
putting down
quashing
quelling
quenching
rebelling
rebellion
rebellious
rebelliousness
recalcitrance
recalcitrant
recusancy
refractoriness
refractory
rejecting
repelling
repressing
resilient
resistant
resisting
restive
restraining
restricting
retaining
retarding
revolt
rigid
rising
rudeness
self-will
smothering
solid
sound
squashing
squelching
stiff
stifling
stilling
strong
stubbornness
sturdy
subduing
substantial
suppressing
swelling
tense
thwarting
uncontrollable
undisciplined
unflexible
ungovernable
unmanageable
unruliness
unruly
untoward
unyielding
wayward
waywardness
wilful
willful
willfulness
withholding
withstanding
wrongheaded

Meanings of yielding

verb
1. To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
2. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
3. To give way; to allow another to pass first.
4. To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
5. To give, or give forth, (anything).
6. To give way; to succumb to a force.
7. To produce as return, as from an investment.
8. To produce as a result.
9. To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
10. (of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
11. To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
adjective
1. Docile, or inclined to give way to pressure.
noun
1. A concession.

Example Sentences

The soft, yielding mattress provided a comfortable night's sleep.
Despite the pressure, she remained calm and yielding in her negotiations.
The chef emphasized the importance of using fresh, yielding vegetables in the stir-fry.
His patient and yielding demeanor made him an effective mediator in conflicts.
The yielding nature of the clay made it ideal for sculpting intricate details in pottery.

On this page you'll find 415 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to yielding, such as: abandoning, abidance, abnegating, abolishing, acquiescence, acquiescent, acquiescing.

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