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Synonyms:
- subjected, united, faithful, genuflecting, agreeable, humble, earnest, submissiveness, subordinate, ductile, calm, pliant, consensual, mutual, empathetic, passive, flexible, friendly, concordant, devoted, agreed, loyal, feudal, obedient, fain, harmonious, attending, adaptable, inferior, eagerness, downtrodden, subservient, tractability, pliable, susceptibility, tolerant, favorable, dutiful, nonresistant, likeable, curtsying, biddable, pliability, compliance, cooperative, submissive, by mutual/common consent, plastic, idle, placid, favourable, receptiveness, slavish, amenable, together, persuadability, readiness, yieldingness, game, unresistant, eager, tractable, understanding, yielding, persuadable, assent, capitulating, amiable, agreeability, in accord with, receptive, tame, ready, tameness, browbeaten, at one with, minded, menial, tolerating, compatible, inert, congenial, resist, assenting, flexibility, resigned, willing, malleable, complaisant, inactive, docile, susceptible, groveling, servile, willingness, meek, co-operative, amenability, malleability, pleasant, ductility, cooperation, deferential, compliant, earnestness, kowtowing, adaptability, allegiant
Examples:
- - He has presented to us the fantastic but true panorama of certain persons who were young and idealistic, who became middle- aged and practical, who are now old and acquiescent; of persons who were born mid- Victorians, who became later- Victorians, who to this day survive grotesquely among the moderns- and again young men and women of to- day who themselves will survive to a derelict old age among people as unlike us as we are unlike the heroes of Mrs. Ward Beecher Stowe. - "Personality in Literature", Rolfe Arnold Scott-James
- - On his arrival, the Squire seemed to have swung back from the acquiescent mood in which he had caused his former aversion to be invited to Kencote, and had greeted him with a manner not much more conciliatory than he had previously shown him. - "The Honour of the Clintons", Archibald Marshall
- - At last, this far too acquiescent lover had rebelled against her decree of silence and separation. - "The Branding Iron", Katharine Newlin Burt
Antonyms:
- dissident, insurgent, wrongheaded, balky, protesting, intractable, indomitable, unruly, rebellious, nonconformist, incompliant, resistant, perverse, mutinous, willful, contrary, insubordinate, ungovernable, recalcitrant, uncontrollable, resisting, undisciplined, disobedient, headstrong, refractory, restive, wayward, unyielding, froward, defiant, unmanageable, untoward, contumacious