ACQUIESCENT Synonyms: 76 Similar and Opposite Words

acquiescent

adjective

ˌa-kwē-ˈe-sᵊnt

Definition of acquiescent

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

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Recent Examples of acquiescent Because rulers do not hesitate to violently suppress dissent, citizens are risk averse and acquiescent. — Michael Bratton, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2016 Don’t ask the Constitution to tame a reckless president supported by a cravenly acquiescent Congress. — Clive Crook, Twin Cities, 25 Feb. 2026 Trump is the most corrupt and scandal-plagued president since Nixon; indeed, his fiascoes eclipse Nixon’s, but many of them remain mostly or somewhat hidden, thanks in part to a much more acquiescent Republican Congress than the one Nixon had. — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 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 See All Example Sentences for acquiescent

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Liz Alvarado skillfully broadens this figure from a resigned, knowing older woman committed to marrying for security, to believably revealing dormant feelings within her that tamped down her first-and-only true enamorado Diego.

— Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 12 May 2026
Neither is the machine that, partway through the play, noisily turns the stage into a great berg of foam, which slowly subsumes a resigned Kramer.

— Talya Zax, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2026

Definition of resigned

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And for many women, tapping into that passive income could be a real lifeline in a cost-of-living crisis.

— Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 3 July 2026
The physical configuration achieves passive safety operational profiles by relying on subcritical physics variables and inherent material limitations.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 July 2026

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