Synonyms of acquiescent

acquiescent

adjective

ˌa-kwē-ˈe-sᵊnt 

as in resigned

receiving or enduring without offering resistance

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• resigned
• obedient
• passive
• tolerant
• willing
• nonresistant
• yielding
• tolerating
• docile
• stoic
• unresistant
• uncomplaining
• pliant
• subordinate
• compliant
• forbearing
• conformist
• patient
• submissive
• impassive
• long-suffering
• tractable
• amiable
• conformable
• complying
• pliable
• amenable
• surrendering
• subservient
• obeisant
• agreeable
• obliging
• unresponsive
• slavish
• uncaring
• apathetic
• law-abiding
• manageable
• governable
• guidable
• disciplined

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• resistant
• defiant
• resisting
• protesting
• unyielding
• contrary
• recalcitrant
• refractory
• uncontrollable
• rebellious
• insubordinate
• disobedient
• mutinous
• intractable
• restive
• contumacious
• unruly
• insurgent
• ungovernable
• untoward
• wayward
• perverse
• willful
• wrongheaded
• balky
• headstrong
• indomitable
• unmanageable
• undisciplined
• incompliant
• froward
• dissident
• nonconformist

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of acquiescent

Don’t ask the Constitution to tame a reckless president supported by a cravenly acquiescent Congress. — Clive Crook, Twin Cities, 25 Feb. 2026

With This is Gavin Newsom, the California governor is obviously working to position himself as some sort of aisle-bridging but Trump-antagonizing candidate, an acquiescent project that involves booking Steve Bannon one week and Ezra Klein the next. — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2025

The president has been calling aggressively for lower rates and a more acquiescent Fed. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2025

Because rulers do not hesitate to violently suppress dissent, citizens are risk averse and acquiescent. — Michael Bratton, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2016