acquiescent

Borrowed from Latin acquiescens, -entis; present participle.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /æˈkwi.ɛsn̩t/

acquiescent (comparative more acquiescent, superlative most acquiescent)

1. willing to acquiesce, accept or agree to something without objection, protest or resistance
   • 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:

     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. resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit

   an acquiescent policy

• (conceding to a sin or crime): complicit

• quiescent

• acquiescent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

acquiescent

1. third-person plural present indicative of acquiescer
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of acquiescer

acquiēscent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of acquiēscō