Antonyms for yielding
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : yeel-ding |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈyil dɪŋ |
Definition of yielding
Origin :- Old English gield "payment, sum of money" (see yield (v.)); extended sense of "production" (as of crops) is first attested mid-15c. Earliest English sense survives in financial "yield from investments."
- adj accommodating
- adj soft, flexible
- One of the most delightful things about temptation is yielding now and then.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- But day followed day, and still they waited in vain for any sign of yielding.
- Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell
- All at once an impulse of yielding which was really freedom came to her.
- Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various
- Locke, yielding to the prejudices of the time, took the same ground.
- Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
- Peppajee eyed him comprehendingly, but there was no yielding in his brown, wrinkled face.
- Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower
- Far and wide lay a ruined country, yielding nothing but desolation.
- Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
- I am afraid of breaking off everything, or of yielding everything.
- Extract from : « A Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales » by Guy De Maupassant
- The substance of the wall seemed as permeable and yielding as light.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- His ax swung up and down, bit into something soft and yielding.
- Extract from : « Slaves of Mercury » by Nat Schachner
- Anger gave way to despair, decision to weakness and yielding.
- Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
Synonyms for yielding
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