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yielding [ˈjiːldɪŋ] adj
1. compliant, submissive, or flexible 2. pliable or soft a yielding material yieldingly adv yieldingness n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
yielding adjective 1. soft, pliable, springy, elastic, resilient, supple, spongy, unresisting, quaggy the soft yielding cushions 2. submissive, obedient, compliant, docile, easy, flexible, accommodating, pliant, tractable, acquiescent, biddable women's yielding nature submissive stubborn, perverse, wilful, dogged, tenacious, opinionated, obstinate, headstrong, stiff-necked, mulish Translations yielding [ˈjiːldɪŋ] ADJ 2. (= compliant, submissive) [person] (in temperament) → complaciente; (physically) → tierno yielding adj person → nachgiebig; surface, material → nachgebend; the ground is yielding → der Boden gibt nach yielding [ˈjiːldɪŋ] adj (person) → arrendevole; (ground, surface) → cedevole yielding [ˈjiːldɪŋ] adj (person) → arrendevole; (ground, surface) → cedevole How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Minerva, wondering why they had preferred trees not yielding fruit, inquired the reason for their choice. And, besides, your modern ship which is a steamship makes her passages on other principles than yielding to the weather and humouring the sea. If you can give me your assurance of having no design beyond enjoying the conversation of a clever woman for a short period, and of yielding admiration only to her beauty and abilities, without being blinded by them to her faults, you will restore me to happiness ;but, if you cannot do this, explain to me, at least, what has occasioned so great an alteration in your opinion of her. |
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