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Acquiescent

//æˈkwi.ɛsn̩t// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    willing to acquiesce, accept or agree to something without objection, protest or resistance

    "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."

  2. 2
    resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit

    "an acquiescent policy"

Adjective
  1. 1
    willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest wordnet

Etymology

From Latin acquiescens, -entis; present participle.

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