"acquiescent" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /æˈkwi.ɛsn̩t/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-acquiescent.wav Forms: more acquiescent [comparative], most acquiescent [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɛsənt Etymology: From Latin acquiescens, -entis; present participle. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*kʷyeh₁-}}, {{der|en|la|acquiescens}} Latin acquiescens Head templates: {{en-adj}} acquiescent (comparative more acquiescent, superlative most acquiescent)
  1. willing to acquiesce, accept or agree to something without objection, protest or resistance Translations (willing to acquiesce): aquiescent (Catalan), welwillend (Dutch), inschikkelijk (Dutch), myöntyväinen (Finnish), bienveillant (French), indulgent (French), accondiscendente (Italian), remissivo (Italian), spolegliwy (Polish), aquiescente (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-acquiescent-en-adj-MaWcposx Disambiguation of 'willing to acquiesce': 85 15
  2. resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit Categories (topical): Personality Synonyms (conceding to a sin or crime): complicit Translations (resting satisfied or submissive): weltevreden (Dutch), onderdanig (Dutch), docile (French), soumis (French), aquiescente (Portuguese), покі́рний (pokírnyj) (Ukrainian), покі́рливий (pokírlyvyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-acquiescent-en-adj-3WkLDm-J Disambiguation of Personality: 7 93 Categories (other): English terms with collocations, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 73 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 12 88 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 16 84 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 11 89 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 16 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 16 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 15 85 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 17 83 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 15 85 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 19 81 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 14 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 16 84 Disambiguation of 'conceding to a sin or crime': 31 69 Disambiguation of 'resting satisfied or submissive': 3 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: assenting, agreeable, acquiescent, consenting, obliging, prepared, ultroneous [archaic], willing Derived forms: acquiescently, inacquiescent, nonacquiescent, unacquiescent Related terms: quiescent, inclined, obey, optional
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.