Acquiescent

a.

1.

Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy.

Adj.

1.

acquiescent - 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" Synonyms: biddable, compliant

abject, accepting, accommodating, accordant, acquiescing, adaptable, adapting, adaptive, adjustable, adjusting, affirmative, agreeable, agreed, agreeing, alacritous, amenable, approving, ardent, assentatious, assenting, complaisant, compliable, compliant, complying, conceding, concessive, conformable, conforming, consentient, consenting, content, cooperative, devoted, disposed, docile, duteous, dutiful, eager, endorsing, enthusiastic, fain, faithful, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, flexible, forward, game, humble, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, law-abiding, loyal, malleable, meek, minded, nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive, nothing loath, obedient, other-directed, passive, permissive, plastic, pliant, predisposed, prompt, prone, quick, ratifying, ready, ready and willing, receptive, reconciled, resigned, responsive, sanctioning, servile, submissive, subservient, supine, tractable, unassertive, uncomplaining, ungrudging, unloath, unrefusing, unreluctant, unresistant, unresisting, well-disposed, well-inclined, willed, willing, willinghearted, yielding, zealous

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