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Pertinacious vs Yielding - What's the difference?

pertinacious | yielding |

As adjectives the difference between pertinacious and yielding

is that pertinacious is holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose while yielding is docile, or inclined to give way to pressure.

As a verb yielding is

.

As a noun yielding is

a concession.

pertinacious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose.
  • * 1884', , "The Path of Duty" in ''The English Illustrated Magazine'' ' 2 (15): 240–256.
  • *:He would really have to make up his mind to care for his wife or not to care for her. What would Lady Vandeleur say to one alternative, and what would little Joscelind say to the other? That is what it was to have a pertinacious father and to be an accommodating son.
  • Stubbornly resolute or tenacious.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * pertinaciousness * pertinacity

    yielding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Docile, or inclined to give way to pressure.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A concession.

    • Derived terms

    * overyielding