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say it: YEEL-ding
yielding is an adjective and noun meaning "inclined to yield to argument or influence or control". It is pronounced /ˈjildɪŋ/ — YEEL-ding. It carries 5 recorded senses.
tending to give in or surrender or agree
“too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments”
a verbal act of admitting defeat
the act of conceding or yielding
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for yielding come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.