Yielding

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: yield=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

Yielding, a. 

 Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper.  [1913 Webster]

Yielding and paying (Law), the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill.

Syn. -- Obsequious; attentive.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Yielding, adj.
1 compliant, submissive.
2 (of a substance) able to bend; not stiff or rigid.

Derivative

yieldingly adv. yieldingness n.

THESAURUS

Yielding

abandonment, abatement of differences, abdication, abjuration, abjurement, acceptance, accommodating, accommodation, acquiescence, acquiescent, adaptable, adjustment, agreeable, amenable, arrangement, assent, bargain, bearing, bendable, bending, biddable, bouncy, cession, complaisance, compliance, compliant, composition, compromise, concession, consent, convenient, cop-out, deal, deference, desertion of principle, dispensation, disposal, disposition, docile, dropping out, ductile, dumping, elastic, evasion of responsibility, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, feasible, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, foolproof, forgoing, formable, formative, forswearing, fructiferous, fructification, fruitbearing, fruiting, fruition, getting rid of, give-and-take, giving, giving up, giving way, handing over, handy, homage, impressible, impressionable, kneeling, letting go, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, manipulable, moldable, mushy, mutual concession, nonopposal, nonopposition, nonresistance, nonresistant, nonresisting, obedience, obedient, obeisance, obliging, pappy, passiveness, passivity, plastic, pliable, pliant, practical, producing, pulpy, quaggy, recantation, receptive, release, relinquishment, renouncement, renunciation, resignation, resigned, resignedness, resilient, responsive, retraction, riddance, rubbery, sacrifice, sensitive, sequacious, settlement, shapable, soft, spongy, springy, squashy, squelchy, squishy, squushy, subjection, submission, submissive, submittal, supineness, supple, surrender, susceptible, swearing off, tractable, tractile, unaustere, undemanding, understanding, unexacting, unharsh, unresistant, unresisting, unsevere, unstrict, untroublesome, waiver, whippy, wieldable, wieldy, willowy, withdrawing

ROGET THESAURUS

Yielding

Facility

N facility, ease, easiness, capability, feasibility, flexibility, pliancy, smoothness, plain sailing, smooth sailing, straight sailing, mere child's play, holiday task, cinch, smooth water, fair wind, smooth royal road, clear coast, clear stage, tabula rasa, full play, disencumbrance, disentanglement, deoppilation, permission, simplicity, lack of complication, easy, facile, feasible, easily managed, easily accomplished, within reach, accessible, easy of access, for the million, open to, manageable, wieldy, towardly, tractable, submissive, yielding, ductile, suant, pliant, glib, slippery, smooth, on friction wheels, on velvet, unembarrassed, disburdened, unburdened, disencumbered, unencumbered, disembarrassed, exonerated, unloaded, unobstructed, untrammeled, unrestrained, at ease, light, at home with, quite at home, in one's element, in smooth water, skillful, accustomed, easily, readily, smoothly, swimmingly, on easy terms, single-handed, touch and go.

Submission

N submission, yielding, nonresistance, obedience, surrender, cession, capitulation, resignation, backdown, obeisance, homage, kneeling, genuflexion, courtesy, curtsy, kowtow, prostration, surrendering, submissive, resigned, crouching, downtrodden, down on one's marrow bones, on one's bended knee, unresistant, unresisting, nonresisting, pliant, undefended, untenable, indefensible, humble, have it your own way, it can't be helped, amen, da locum melioribus, tempori parendum.

Softness

N softness, pliableness, flexibility, pliancy, pliability, sequacity, malleability, ductility, tractility, extendibility, extensibility, plasticity, inelasticity, flaccidity, laxity, penetrability, clay, wax, butter, dough, pudding, alumina, argil, cushion, pillow, feather bed, down, padding, wadding, foam, mollification, softening, soft, tender, supple, pliant, pliable, flexible, flexile, lithe, lithesome, lissom, limber, plastic, ductile, tractile, tractable, malleable, extensile, sequacious, inelastic, aluminous, remollient, yielding, flabby, limp, flimsy, doughy, spongy, penetrable, foamy, cushiony, flaccid, flocculent, downy, edematous, oedematous, medullary, argillaceous, mellow, soft as butter, soft as down, soft as silk, yielding as wax, tender as chicken.