Text: receiving or enduring without offering resistance<the student body was surprisingly passive about having recess shortened>Synonymsacquiescent, nonresistant, resigned, tolerant, tolerating, unresistant, unresisting, yieldingRelated Wordsforbearing, long-suffering, patient, uncomplaining; agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, conformist, docile, guidable, law-abiding, obedient, subordinate, tractable, willing; submissive, surrendering; amiable, obliging; slavish, subservient; disciplined, governable, manageable; apathetic, uncaring, unresponsiveNear Antonymsdefiant; contrary, disobedient, insubordinate, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly; balky, perverse, wayward, wrongheaded; headstrong, willful (or wilful); indomitable; undisciplined, unmanageable; dissident, nonconformistAntonymsprotesting, resistant, resisting, unyielding

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