acquiescent

Definition

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

Etymology

From Latin acquiescens, -entis; present participle.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "an acquiescent policy"

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