YIELDING

adj. 1 pliant, flexile, flexible, pliable, soft, plastic, fictile, elastic, resilient, supple, springy, bouncy, spongy, rubbery The frame is of a yielding material that gives way under pressure 2 accommodating, docile, submissive, amenable, tractable, compliant, obedient, flexible, acquiescent, agreeable, obliging, manageable, manipulable He wanted a wife with a yielding temperament who would tolerate his foibles