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View definitions for acquiescent

acquiescent

adjective as in passive

adjective as in willing

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Example Sentences

This raises the possibility that it could step in if the administration proves too acquiescent.

I wandered around aimlessly for a while, then gave the goose to an acquiescent hippy on a barge.

He grew listless and indifferent, acquiescent in these steep efforts that the next moment must throw away.

Sleeping or waking, resisting or acquiescent, Pierre's head was in serious danger, if it threatened lise.

When that happened which was appointed to happen, it must find him not only acquiescent but serene and undisturbed.

These achievements often leave me a little cold, intellectually acquiescent, nothing more.

For how long content—content is not the word: despairingly acquiescent—theres no word to express that—I can noway tell.

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On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to acquiescent, such as: acquiescing, assentive, nonresistant, resigned, submissive, and unresistant.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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