acquiescent

ac·qui·es·cent

adj \-ˈe-s^ənt\

Definition of ACQUIESCENT

: inclined to acquiesce

— ac·qui·es·cent·ly adverb

Examples of ACQUIESCENT

1. The acquiescent girl became a strong assertive woman.
2. <was not as acquiescent about sharing her room as her parents seemed to think she should be>

Origin of ACQUIESCENT

Latin acquiescent-, acquiescens, present participle of acquiescere

First Known Use: 1753

Related to ACQUIESCENT

Synonyms: passive, nonresistant, resigned, tolerant, tolerating, unresistant, yielding

Antonyms: protesting, resistant, resisting, unyielding

Related Words: forbearing, impassive, long-suffering, patient, stoic (or stoical), uncomplaining; agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, conformable, conformist, docile, guidable, law-abiding, obedient, pliable, pliant, subordinate, tractable, willing; obeisant, submissive, surrendering; amiable, obliging; slavish, subservient; disciplined, governable, manageable; apathetic, uncaring, unresponsive

Near Antonyms: defiant; contrary, contumacious, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly, untoward; balky, perverse, wayward, wrongheaded; headstrong, willful (or wilful); indomitable; undisciplined, unmanageable; dissident, nonconformist

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Rhymes with ACQUIESCENT

adolescent, arborescent, Fertile Crescent, incandescent, opalescent, prepubescent, viridescent