acquiescent
- s willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest
too acquiescent to challenge authority
- If Doyle believes that an acquiescent wife is the key to happiness, I suspect she assumes that husbands are domineering and want to control their wives.
- Since her day the archipelago has been popularly regarded, at least by tabloid readers, as a lovers' Eden, with hibiscus and orchids everywhere and acquiescent beauty under every .
- But Japan's consumers are snapping out of their acquiescent ways.