Acquiescent

Definition: Acquiescent

Acquiescent

Adjective

1. Willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest; "too acquiescent to challenge authority"; "a gentle and biddable soul"; "children compliant with the parental will".

Date "acquiescent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)

Etymology: Acquiescent \Ac`qui*es"cent\, adjective. [Latin expression acquiescens, -centis; present participle.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Acquiescent

Synonyms: biddable (adj), compliant (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Assent	Adjective: assenting; v; of one accord, of one mind; of the same mind, at one with, agreed, acquiescent, content; willing.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Acquiescent

English words defined with "acquiescent": Acquiescency, Acquiescently ♦ biddable ♦ compliant ♦ Inacquiescent. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Acquiescent" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (consent).

Domain	Title
Books	Acquiescent Villa: Poems (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Acquiescent Resonance (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Acquiescent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.30% of the time. "Acquiescent" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	97.3%	36	57,479
Noun (proper)	2.7%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	37	N/A

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Language		Translations for "acquiescent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i urtë (canny, compliant, docile, ductile, meek, mild, placable, prudent, quiet, sage, sapient, sapiential, silent, Solomon, still, sweet-tempered, tame, wise). (various references)

Arabic		‏ميال للقبول, ‏مذعن (compliant, obedient, pliable, submissive, yielding). (various references)

Bulgarian		който се съгласява неохотно, който приема мълчаливо, невъзразяващ, примирен (philosophical, resigned), примирителен (appeasable). (various references)

Czech		povolný (compliant, conforming, docile, pliable, pliant, supple, tractable). (various references)

Farsi		ساکت (Calm, Hush, Imperturbable, Serene, Shush, Silent, Still, Whist), خشنود, راضی شونده , راضی (Content, Happy). (various references)

French		consentant. (various references)

German		ergeben (addicted, affectionate, amount to, come to, devoted, humble, make, produce, result in, reveal, selfless, submissive, to result in, yield). (various references)

Greek		συγκαταβατικόσ, συναίνων (consenter). (various references)

Hungarian		beleegyező (willing), alkalmazkodó (adaptable, adaptive, conformable, conformist, easy going, facile, nonconformist, opportunist, pliant, supple). (various references)

Indonesian		menyetujui (accede, accept, accord, adopt, agree, approve, approving, assent). (various references)

Italian		acquiescente. (various references)

Manx		lhie roish (acquiesce, acquiescence), aashagh (easy, effortless, leisurely, rest, softly). (various references)

Pig Latin		acquiescentay

Portuguese		aquiescente, submisso (amenable, biddable, broken, conformable, dutiable, humble, obedientiary, submissive, yielding), condescendente (compliant, condescending, facilitate, yielding), complacente (complacent, compliant, indulgent, sympathetic, yielding). (various references)

Romanian		supus (compliant, duteous, dutiful, dutifully, humble, meek, meekly, obedient, obediential, passive, subject, submissive, submissively, supple, tame, yielding). (various references)

Russian		уступчивый (compliant, concessive, facile, flexible, pliable, supple). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		koji (smoking, that, what, which, who). (various references)

Spanish		conforme (accordance, accordant, according, agreeable, agreed, agreement, conform, conformable, ok, okay). (various references)

Swedish		eftergiven (compliant, conformable, fond, indulgent, lenient, permissive, pliable, pliant, weak-kneed). (various references)

Turkish		uysal (accommodating, agreeable, amenable, Clement, compliant, demiss, docile, ductile, easy, easygoing, facile, flexible, flexile, gentle, good humoured, good tempered, good-humored, lamblike, malleable, manageable, meek, milky, peaceful, pliant, soft, squeezable, submissive, supple, sweet-tempered, tame, toward, tractable, yielding), kabul eden (accepter, acceptor, consentient, susceptive). (various references)

Ukranian		слухняна людина, що не протесту�", мовчазна людина, покірна людина, покірний (acquiesced, benign, duteous, lamblike, meek, obedient, obediential, obeisant, prideless, resigned, submissive, tame). (various references)

Vietnamese		mặc nhận phục tùng, bằng lòng (approving, assentient, consentient, content, contented, willing), ưng thuận, đ�"ng ý; bằng lòng ngầm. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "acquiescent": acquiescently. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Acquiescent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acqueiscent, acquiecent, acquiesent, aquiescent. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "acquiescent" (pronounced 'Ac`qui*es"cent'): Acaulescent, Accrescent, Adducent, Adipescent, Adnascent, Albescent, Alkalescent, Arborescent, Candescent, Canescent, Caulescent, Cerulescent, Cinerescent, Circumjacent, Coalescent, Complacent, Conducent, Connascent, Contabescent, Decent, Dehiscent, Deliquescent, Delitescent, Depascent, Docent, Effervescent, Efflorescent, Enascent, Equicrescent, Erubescent, -escent, Evanescent, Excandescent, Excrescent, Exercent, Fervescent, Flavescent, Florescent, fluorescent, Fremescent, Frutescent, Gangrenescent, Glaucescent, Herbescent, ignescent, Inacquiescent, Incalescent, incandescent, Incanescent, Increscent, indecent, indehiscent, Ineffervescent, Interjacent, Interlucent, Intumescent, iridescent, Jacent, Juvenescent, Lactescent, Latescent, liquescent, lucent, Lutescent, Maledicent, Manuducent, Marcescent, Maturescent, Nascent, Nigrescent, Obsolescent, Opalescent, Papescent, Petrescent, Phosphorescent, Photoluminescent, Precent, Producent, Pubescent, Putrescent, Rancescent, recent, Recrudescent, Reducent, Rejuvenescent, Relucent, renascent, Revalescent, Reviviscent, Rigescent, Rubescent, Rufescent, Self-complacent, Semitranslucent, senescent, Spinescent, Spinulescent, Spumescent, subjacent, Subnascent, Subtranslucent, suffrutescent, Sugescent, Supercrescent, superjacent, Tabescent, Toppescent, Traducent, Tralucent, translucent, tumescent, Turgescent, Undecent, Violascent, Violescent, Virescent, Viridescent, Vitrescent. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-n-q-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: acquiesce, encaustic, quiescent, succinate.
	-3 letters: acescent, antiques, caciques, cineaste, cuneatic, equiseta, eucaines, quantics, quietens.
	-4 letters: accents, acetins, acquest, acquits, antique, ascetic, asquint, aunties, cacique, caiques, caustic, cetanes, cineast, cinques, cuneate, cutesie, entices, equates, equines, equites, etesian, eucaine, inquest, nutcase, quantic, quieten, quinate, quinces, quintas, quintes, science, sequent, sinuate, tenaces, tunicae.
	-5 letters: accent, accuse, acetic, acetin, acinus, acquit, actins, acutes, aeneus, antics, ascent, auntie, cactus, caique, cantic, cantus, caseic, casein, casque, centai, centas, cetane, cinque, cuesta, cuties, cutins, enacts, enates, enatic, encase, entice, equate, equine, incase, incest, incuse, insect, nastic, nicest, nieces, quaint, quants, queans, queens, quiets, quince, quinta, quinte, quints, sacque, sateen, scenic, seance, secant, senate, seneca, sequin, siccan, squint, stance, tenace, teniae, tenias, tenues, tenuis, tineas, tisane, tunica, tunics, uncase, unciae, unease, unites, unseat, unties, usance, usneae.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-n-q-s-t-u"
	+2 letters: acquiescently.
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