Synonyms and Antonyms of acquiescent
receiving or enduring without offering resistance
- was not as acquiescent about sharing her room as her parents seemed to think she should be
forbearing, impassive, long-suffering, patient, stoic (or stoical), uncomplaining
agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, conformable, conformist, docile, guidable, law-abiding, obedient, pliable, pliant, subordinate, tractable, willing
obeisant, submissive, surrendering
amiable, obliging
slavish, subservient
disciplined, governable, manageable
apathetic, uncaring, unresponsive
defiant
contrary, contumacious, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly, untoward
balky, perverse, wayward, wrongheaded
headstrong, willful (or wilful)
indomitable
undisciplined, unmanageable
dissident, nonconformist
