What is another word for acquiescent?
199 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ˌakwɪˈɛsənt], [ ˌakwɪˈɛsənt], [ ˌa_k_w_ɪ__ˈɛ_s_ə_n_t]Table of Contents
Similar words for acquiescent:- affirmative (adjective)
- agreeable (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- amenable (adjective)
- docile (adjective)
- flexible (adjective)
- good-natured (adjective)
- henpecked (adjective)
- passive (adjective)
- permissive (adjective)
- resigned (adjective)
- servile (adjective)
- submissive (adjective)
- subservient (adjective)
- tractable (adjective)
- willing (adjective)
- yielding (adjective)
- acquiescent (noun)
- willingness (noun)
- other synonyms
- tender
Definition for Acquiescent:
Synonyms for Acquiescent:
adj.
•affirmative (adjective) •agreeable (adjective)- harmonious,
- empathetic,
- well-disposed,
- amiable,
- likeable,
- pleasant,
- willing,
- concordant,
- Capitulating,
- congenial,
- in accord,
- sympathetic,
- co-operative,
- friendly,
- consensual,
- understanding,
- compatible.
- more weakkneed,
- weak-kneed,
- most docious,
- wellbehaved,
- well behaved,
- teachable,
- most weakkneed,
- more weak-kneed,
- more docious,
- weakkneed,
- weak kneed,
- most weak-kneed,
- more weak kneed,
- laidback,
- most weak kneed.
- non-resistant,
- inactive,
- idle,
- inert,
- non-violent,
- walking through it,
- calm,
- unassertive,
- placid,
- poker-faced,
- going through motions,
- hands off.
- more latitudinarian,
- more allowing,
- all-owing,
- openminded,
- most allowing,
- more easy going,
- latitudinarian,
- all owing,
- most easy-going,
- open minded,
- most latitudinarian,
- most easy going,
- more easy-going.
- browbeaten,
- menial,
- downtrodden,
- humble,
- attending,
- dutiful,
- feudal,
- Subjected,
- groveling,
- Genuflecting,
- curtsying,
- subordinate,
- kowtowing,
- devoted,
- slavish,
- inferior.
- givingin,
- un complaining,
- more obeying,
- most givingin,
- most obeying,
- most giving-in,
- sub missive,
- yessest,
- most uncomplaining,
- more givingin,
- sub-missive,
- un-complaining,
- most giving in,
- yesser,
- more giving in,
- more comformable,
- most comformable,
- more uncomplaining,
- more giving-in.
- more dancing,
- most bootlicking,
- at mercy,
- more bootlicking,
- more cowering,
- most cowering,
- more sycophantic,
- under one thumb,
- a slave to,
- at ones mercy,
- at one mercy,
- most dancing,
- under ones thumb,
- most sycophantic.
n.
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- resist,
- united,
- agreed,
- together,
- mutual,
- favorable,
- in accord with,
- at one with,
- nonresistant,
- by mutual/common consent,
- favourable.
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- game.
Other synonyms:
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- minded.
- kind.
Antonyms for Acquiescent:
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adj.
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Other antonyms:
mutinous, protesting, dissident, indomitable, insurgent, resistant, nonconformist, unmanageable, balky, headstrong, froward, uncontrollable, wrongheaded, undisciplined.
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Other antonyms:
Acquiescent Sentence Examples:
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The Englishman, with some tact, allowed this remark to pass in acquiescent silence.
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All that was left of her ready disdain was an extreme patience which expected no reform, asked no improvement; the patience she had for the leveret and the wolf, things contemptible and full of harm, yet not so by their own choice; the patience of acquiescent and hopeless despair.
Homophones for Acquiescent:
- ascend, agenda, askant, assigned, accented, account, assassinated, assonant, aconite, assignment, acquaint, agamid, agamete, acanthoid, azoimide, ashamed, agamidae, assessment, agony aunt, Asininity, agnate, accommodate, awakened, agonidae, aquanaut, assonate, accouchement, acquainted with, augment, assuagement, Acantha, acuminate, agnatha, augmented, azimuth, assent, asquint, assassinate, assumed, acned, augend, accent, as needed, accentuate, agent, acquainted, ascent.