acquiescing
Going along reluctantly
Acquiescing is accepting or going along with something without protest, even if reluctantly.
The word implies passive consent rather than enthusiastic agreement—you stop resisting rather than actively embrace: She found herself acquiescing to demands she would have rejected a year ago.
He kept acquiescing to their plans instead of voicing his own preferences.
Bending under pressure
- deferentialShowing humble submission
- obligingWilling to help others
- amenableWilling to comply
- cooperativeJointly operated enterprise
accommodating · agreeable · conciliatory · tractable · adaptable · flexible · pliable · pliant
Willing to receive
- resignedYielded to circumstances
- unresistingNot opposing force
- passiveNot actively participating
- tolerantAccepting of differences
patient · stoical · fatalistic · forbearing · long-suffering · uncomplaining · unprotesting · enduring
Excessively eager to obey
- obedientFollowing commands willingly
- servileExcessively submissive, lacking independence
- meekHumbly unassertive
- docileEasily controlled or taught
obsequious · fawning · sycophantic · ingratiating · self-effacing · timid · dutiful · unassertive
Expressing agreement officially
- agreeingSharing the same view
- concurringExpressing shared agreement
- approvingExpressing favorable judgment
- endorsingPublicly declaring approval
permitting · sanctioning · authorizing · affirming · ratifying · acknowledging · accepting · confirming
yielding
Bending under pressure
- deferentialShowing humble submission
- obligingWilling to help others
- amenableWilling to comply
cooperative · accommodating · agreeable · conciliatory · tractable · adaptable · flexible · pliable · pliant · biddable
accepting
Willing to receive
- resignedYielded to circumstances
- unresistingNot opposing force
- passiveNot actively participating
tolerant · patient · stoical · fatalistic · forbearing · long-suffering · uncomplaining · unprotesting · enduring · submitting
subservient
Excessively eager to obey
- obedientFollowing commands willingly
- servileExcessively submissive, lacking independence
- meekHumbly unassertive
docile · obsequious · fawning · sycophantic · ingratiating · self-effacing · timid · dutiful · unassertive · tame
assenting
Expressing agreement officially
- agreeingSharing the same view
- concurringExpressing shared agreement
- approvingExpressing favorable judgment
endorsing · permitting · sanctioning · authorizing · affirming · ratifying · acknowledging · accepting · confirming · granting
- conformityconformity, conforming, conform, conformist, conformism
- saying yesyes, nodding, agreeing, sure, accepting
- surrendersurrender, surrenders, surrendering, I surrender, capitulate
- complianceaudit, obeying, policy, compliance officer, regulation
- submissionsubmission hold, submitting, surrendering, capitulation, yielding
- deferencedeference, bow, curtsy, genuflect, kneeling
acquiescingdemanding
Requiring great effort
insisting · asserting · protesting · forbidding · commanding
acquiescingobjecting
Expressing formal disapproval
protesting · dissenting · forbidding · refusing · disputing
acquiesce, acquiescence, acquiescent, acquiesced, acquiesces, acquiescences