acquiescent
English
Etymology
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Borrowed from Latin acquiescens, -entis; present participle.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
acquiescent (comparative more acquiescent, superlative most acquiescent)
- willing to acquiesce, accept or agree to something without objection, protest or resistance
- 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:
- This view is reflected in the novelist's stock portrait of the white-man-in-exile's dusky mistress; an acquiescent shadow, who comes to life only if thrown aside, when, sinister and vindictive, she is ready with the wasting poison.
- resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit
- an acquiescent policy
Synonyms
- (conceding to a sin or crime): complicit
Derived terms
Related terms
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Translations
willing to acquiesce
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resting satisfied or submissive
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See also
References
- “acquiescent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French
Verb
acquiescent
- third-person plural present indicative of acquiescer
- third-person plural present subjunctive of acquiescer
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) acquiēscent