acquiescent
Willing to comply
Acquiescent describes someone who accepts or complies without protest, even when they might disagree.
The word suggests passive acceptance rather than enthusiastic agreement: She remained acquiescent throughout the meeting, nodding along but never voicing her concerns.
An acquiescent person yields to others' wishes, whether from deference, weariness, or indifference.
Easily managed or controlled
- pliableCapable of bending easily
- pliantEasily bent or influenced
- malleableCapable of being shaped
- gentleSoft and kind
tame · manageable · biddable · mild · passive · lamblike · sheepish · unresisting
Showing humble submission
- obedientFollowing commands willingly
- subservientExcessively eager to obey
- meekHumbly unassertive
- unassertiveNot forceful or bold
resigned · surrendering · capitulating · biddable · dutiful · servile · obsequious · slavish
Bending under pressure
- agreeablePleasantly cooperative
- amenableWilling to comply
- obligingWilling to help others
- accommodatingWilling to help others
consenting · complaisant · assenting · unprotesting · uncomplaining · accepting · nonresistant · conciliatory
Not currently functioning
- inertInactive, physically or chemically
- nonassertiveNot forcefully expressive
- quiescentInactive but capable
- phlegmaticUnemotionally calm, slow-reacting
stoical · indifferent · apathetic · dispassionate · unmoved · impassive · unresponsive · lethargic
tractable
Easily managed or controlled
gentle · tame · manageable · biddable · mild · passive · lamblike · sheepish · unresisting · soft
deferential
Showing humble submission
- obedientFollowing commands willingly
- subservientExcessively eager to obey
- meekHumbly unassertive
unassertive · resigned · surrendering · capitulating · biddable · dutiful · servile · obsequious · slavish · supine
yielding
Bending under pressure
accommodating · consenting · complaisant · assenting · unprotesting · uncomplaining · accepting · nonresistant · conciliatory · cooperative
inactive
Not currently functioning
- inertInactive, physically or chemically
- nonassertiveNot forcefully expressive
- quiescentInactive but capable
phlegmatic · stoical · indifferent · apathetic · dispassionate · unmoved · impassive · unresponsive · lethargic · listless
- submissivesubmissive, subservient, obedient, servile, docile
- passivedocile, meek, submissive, compliant, subdued
- certaintycertain, sure, uncertain, unsure, definite
- cowardicecoward, cowardly, craven, gutless, spineless
- flexibilitystretch, elastic, bendy, stretchy, bendable
- humilityhumbleness, humble, meekness, modesty, modest
acquiescentdefiant
Openly resisting control
resistant · rebellious · insubordinate · disobedient · recalcitrant
acquiesce, acquiescence, acquiesced, acquiesces, acquiescences