What is another word for concessive?

Pronunciation: [kənsˈɛsɪv] (IPA)

Concessive is a word used to describe something that grants or acknowledges a point. It is often associated with making concessions or compromises. Some synonyms for concessive include accommodating, yielding, acquiescent, compromising, cooperative, obliging, and compliant. These words often convey a sense of willingness to work with others or to accept a particular view or position. Other synonyms that are related to concessive include conciliatory, flexible, tolerant, and accommodating. These words also suggest a sense of openness and willingness to compromise or adapt, which can be useful in a variety of situations where negotiation and collaboration are necessary.

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What are the hypernyms for Concessive?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Concessive

Convocation again showed itself unfriendly to anything like concessive measures, and so complete was the obscurity into which the doings of the Commission fell, that even as late as 1849, Cardwell, in the third edition of his History of Conferences, speaks as if he knew nothing of the whereabouts of the record.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
So the English when frequently contains the ideas of time and cause, or time and concession combined, and while also is frequently at once temporal and concessive.
"Selections from Viri Romae"
Charles François L'Homond
I think we're too concessive.
"Annie Kilburn A Novel"
W. D. Howells

Famous quotes with Concessive

  • This is a strange fraternity — these sea lions and land lions, land unicorns and sea unicorns; the lion civilly rampant, tame and concessive like the long-tailed bear of Ecuador — the lion standing up against this screen of woven air which is the forest: the unicorn also, on its hind legs in reciprocity.
    Marianne Moore

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