Synonyms and Antonyms of yielding
1
receiving or enduring without offering resistance
- a person too yielding to even stand up for his own rights
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
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
2
not stiff in structure
- after sitting on a hard bench for hours, I was happy to sink into the sofa's yielding cushions
flabby, mushy, semisoft, soft, squashy, squishy
delicate, flimsy, insubstantial
elastic, flexible, lax, loose, pliant, relaxed, resilient, springy, stretchy, supple
