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comparative more acquiescent, superlative most acquiescent
willing to acquiesce, accept or agree to something without objection, protest or resistance quotations examples
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
resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit examples