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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

gentle, submissive, prone to giving away or submitting under force;

e.g. He was a quiet, yielding sort.

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Similar Words

Abidance

Acquiescence

Acquiescent

Bearing

Bowing

Breeding

Capitulation

Comme il faut

Compliance

Conformity

Control

Deference

Discipline

Doing

Eggshell

Fictile

Flaccid

Floppy

Generative

Going

Humility

Inhibition

Ladylike

Lank

Limp

Making

Manageable

Meekness

Modesty

Nonaggressive

Nonbelligerent

Nonhardy

Obedience

Obeisance

Obsequious

Order

Passive

Perishable

Placable

Repression

Resigned

Resistless

Restraint

Ruly

Self-deprecating

Self-deprecatory

Semisoft

Serving

Submission

Subordination

Subservience

Subservient

Supine

Suppression

Surrender

Teachable

Tolerant

Tumbling

Unaggressive

Unarrogant

Unassertive

Uncle

Unresistant

Well-behaved

Working

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Opposite Words

Adamant

Aggressive

Altered

Ambitious

Anal

Anal-retentive

Arresting

Arrogant

Arthritic

Ascetic

Asceticism

Assertive

Assumptive

Austere

Authoritarian

Authoritative

Autocratic

Bagging

Balky

Barren

Bloodthirsty

Bloody

Bloody-minded

Bonded

Bossy

Brassbound

Brittle

Bumptious

Caddish

Cast-iron

Cavalier

Chesty

Commanding

Compact

Condensed

Condescending

Contrary

Controlling

Contumacious

Contumacy

Covering

Crisp

Curbing

Deaf

Defiance

Defiant

Demanding

Dense

Despotic

Determined

Dictatorial

Discourteous

Disdainful

Disobedience

Disobedient

Disrespect

Dissent

Dissidence

Dissident

Dogged

Domineering

Drawing

Emasculated

Enterprising

Exacting

Facing

Fierce

Fighting

Firm

Flinty

Foregoing

Fractious

Froward

Frozen

Fruitless

Grim

Gripping

Hard

Hard-bitten

Hard-line

Hard-shell

Hardy

Harsh

Haughty

Headstrong

Heavy-handed

Hell-bent

Hifalutin

High-handed

High-hat

High-pressure

Highfalutin

Holding

Homicidal

Huffy

Ill-bred

Ill-mannered

Impassable

Impenetrable

Imperious

Impermeable

Impertinent

Impervious

Implacable

Impolite

Important

Impotent

Impregnable

Impudence

In-your-face

Incompliant

Inconsiderate

Indocile

Indomitable

Indurated

Infertile

Inflexible

Insistent

Insolence

Insubordinate

Insurgence

Insurgency

Insurgent

Insurrection

Intractable

Intransigence

Intransigent

Keeping

Landing

Limiting

Lippy

Lofty

Lordly

Making

Mannered

Masterful

Meeting

Militant

Misbehavior

Monkish

Murderous

Mutinous

Mutiny

Noncompliance

Nonconformist

Noncooperation

Noncooperative

Nonelastic

Nonmalleable

Nonperishable

Obdurate

Obstinacy

Obstinate

Obstreperous

Outbreak

Overbearing

Overweening

Patient

Peremptory

Persistent

Pertinacious

Perverse

Pompous

Presumptuous

Pretentious

Prideful

Proud

Pushy

Ramrod

Rebel

Rebellion

Rebellious

Recalcitrance

Recalcitrant

Recusant

Refractory

Regimental

Relentless

Resistant

Restive

Retentive

Revolt

Rheumatic

Rigid

Rigorous

Rising

Rude

Rudeness

Rugged

Sanguinary

Sanguine

Screening

Self-asserting

Self-assertive

Self-flattering

Set

Severe

Sniffy

Snug

Solid

Sterile

Stern

Stiff

Stiff-necked

Stout

Strict

Stringent

Strong

Stubborn

Sturdy

Substantial

Supercilious

Superior

Swelling

Taut

Tenacious

Tense

There

Thoughtless

Tight

Toplofty

Tough

Trigger-happy

Tyrannical

Tyrannous

Unapologetic

Unappeasable

Unbending

Uncalled-for

Uncivil

Uncompromising

Uncontrollable

Uncooperative

Undisciplined

Unflinching

Unfruitful

Ungovernable

Ungracious

Unhandsome

Unhesitating

Unmanageable

Unmannered

Unmannerly

Unpunished

Unrelenting

Unruly

Unsubdued

Untoward

Unyielding

Uppity

Vigorous

Wayward

Wedged

Willful

Winning

Wrongheaded

Your

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Related Words

Absorbing

Active

Agreeable

Alive

Amenable

Amiable

And

Apathetic

Apple

Asthenic

Beginning

Biddable

Civil

Compliance

Compliant

Conciliatory

Confiding

Conformable

Conformist

Courteous

Cracking

Crashing

Deciding

Delicate

Demure

Despairing

Developing

Dewy-eyed

Disarming

Disciplined

Docile

Down-and-out

Down-to-earth

Dying

Easy

Effete

Elastic

Encouraging

Failing

Faint

Fat

Fawning

Fecund

Feeble

Fertile

Flabby

Flagging

Flexible

Flimsy

Fragile

Frail

Fructuous

Fruitful

Functional

Functionality

Furnishing

Genteel

Going

Gracious

Gratifying

Gullible

Hanging

Humble

Impassive

Infirm

Insubstantial

Lagging

Languid

Law-abiding

Lax

Limber

Lissome

Lithe

Live

Liver

Living

Long-suffering

Loose

Low

Lowly

Lush

Luxuriant

Malleable

Manageable

Mannerly

Meek

Melting

Modest

Mushy

Naive

Netting

Obedience

Obedient

Obliging

Offering

On

Online

Operating

Operational

Operative

Pacific

Pacifist

Passing

Patient

Peaceable

Peaceful

Plastic

Pliable

Pliant

Polite

Productive

Prolific

Prostrate

Providing

Pulpy

Relaxed

Resilient

Rich

Running

Semisoft

Sensitive

Slavish

Slight

Smashing

Soft

Splitting

Spongy

Springy

Squashy

Squishy

Stoic

Submission

Submissive

Subordinate

Subordination

Subservient

Supple

Susceptible

Tolerant

Tractable

Unassuming

Uncaring

Uncomplaining

Unpretentious

Unresponsive

Unsubstantial

Unwary

Wasted

Waxy

Weak

Well-bred

Wide-eyed

Willing

Willowy

Withering

Working

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