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acquiescent

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of acquiescent

receiving or enduring without offering resistance

was not as acquiescent about sharing her room as her parents seemed to think she should be

Synonyms of acquiescent

nonresistant, passive, resigned, tolerant, tolerating, unresistant, yielding

Words Related to acquiescent

forbearing, impassive, long-suffering, patient, stoic (or stoical), uncomplaining

agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, conformable, conformist, docile, guidable, law-abiding, obedient, pliable, pliant, subordinate, tractable, willing

obeisant, submissive, surrendering

amiable, obliging

slavish, subservient

disciplined, governable, manageable

apathetic, uncaring, unresponsive

Near Antonyms of acquiescent

contrary, contumacious, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly, untoward

balky, perverse, wayward, wrongheaded

headstrong, willful (or wilful)

undisciplined, unmanageable

dissident, nonconformist

Antonyms of acquiescent

protesting, resistant, resisting, unyielding

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