acquiescent

comparative more acquiescent · superlative most acquiescent

1. Willing to acquiesce, accept or agree to something without objection, protest or resistance.

   The third role, acquiescent was mostly identified in the interviews when students highlighted their willingness to accept suggested placements [...] and stressed that they could adapt to given conditions...

   2025, Robert Walldén, Åsa Wedin, “Oral interaction patterns in work-related activities in teaching and interviews for language practice placements: L2 teaching for adults in Sweden,”, in Classroom Discourse, page 15

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   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.

   1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth

2. Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit.

   an acquiescent policy