ACQUIESCENTS Synonyms

• showing deference

• willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed

• ready and willing to be taught

• easily handled or managed

• humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness

• very docile

• evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant

• moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme

• humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness

• mild and pleasant

• dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority

• lacking in energy or will

• expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb

• the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb

• peacefully resistant in response to injustice

• inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination

• abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant

• easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)

• responsive to suggestions and influences

• inclined to timidity or lack of self-confidence

• a verbal act of admitting defeat

• the act of conceding or yielding

• inclined to yield to argument or influence or control

• lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure

• tending to give in or surrender or agree

• leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily

• give up or retire from a position

• part with a possession or right

• accept as inevitable