acquiesce
Go along with
To acquiesce is to accept or comply without protest, often reluctantly or passively.
The word suggests yielding to pressure or circumstances rather than enthusiastic agreement: She acquiesced to her parents' wishes.
You acquiesce in a decision, to a demand, or simply acquiesce without an object: After hours of argument, he finally acquiesced.
Produce or relinquish
- submitPresent for consideration
- concedeAdmit something reluctantly
- complyFollow rules or requests
- give inCease resistance, concede
defer · capitulate · surrender · accede · relent · bow · succumb · resign
Readily yielding to control
- docileEasily controlled or taught
- compliantYielding to others' wishes
- meekHumbly unassertive
- unresistingNot opposing force
deferential · obedient · yielding · biddable · resigned · unassertive · pliable · supine
Urged with insistence
browbeaten · bullied · arm-twisted · cowed · intimidated · steamrolled · railroaded · strong-armed
Producing no sound
- unspokenNot verbally expressed
- implicitUnderstood without being stated
- wordlessLacking spoken content
- muteWithout voice or sound
unexpressed · unstated · nonverbal · implied · understood · unarticulated · unvoiced · tacit consent
yield
Produce or relinquish
give in · defer · capitulate · surrender · accede · relent · bow · succumb · resign · cede
submissive
Readily yielding to control
unresisting · deferential · obedient · yielding · biddable · resigned · unassertive · pliable · supine · tractable
pressured
Urged with insistence
cornered · browbeaten · bullied · arm-twisted · cowed · intimidated · steamrolled · railroaded · strong-armed · overruled
silent
Producing no sound
mute · unexpressed · unstated · nonverbal · implied · understood · unarticulated · unvoiced · tacit consent · silent agreement
- Accept synonymswelcome, embrace, adopt, acknowledge, admit
- conformityconformity, conforming, conform, conformist, conformism
- surrendersurrender, surrenders, surrendering, I surrender, capitulate
- tricky spellingsaccommodate, acknowledge, acquaintance, acquire, bureau
- fancy wordsgrandiloquent, magniloquent, sesquipedalian, pulchritudinous, tintinnabulation
- adaptadapt, adjust, acclimate, accommodate, accustom
acquiescence, acquiescent, acquiesced, acquiescing, acquiesces, acquiescences