Antonyms of adj unyielding

2 senses of unyielding

Sense 1
dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding -- (stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion")

INDIRECT (VIA stubborn) -> docile -- (willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed; "the docile masses of an enslaved nation")

Sense 2
unyielding -- (resistant to physical force or pressure; "an unyielding head support")

INDIRECT (VIA hard) -> soft -- (yielding readily to pressure or weight)

Similarity of adj unyielding

2 senses of unyielding

Sense 1
dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding -- (stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion")
       => stubborn (vs. docile), obstinate, unregenerate -- (tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield)

Sense 2
unyielding -- (resistant to physical force or pressure; "an unyielding head support")
       => hard (vs. soft) -- (resisting weight or pressure)