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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /æˈkwi.ɛsn̩t/
• 韻: -ɛsənt

形容詞

acquiescent (comparative more acquiescent, superlative most acquiescent)

1. Willing to acquiesce, accept or agree to something without objection, protest or resistance.
   • 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:

     This view is reflected in the novelist's stock portrait of the white-man-in-exile's dusky mistress; an acquiescent shadow, who comes to life only if thrown aside, when, sinister and vindictive, she is ready with the wasting poison.

   • 2025, Robert Walldén, Åsa Wedin, “Oral interaction patterns in work-related activities in teaching and interviews for language practice placements: L2 teaching for adults in Sweden,”, in Classroom Discourse‎, page 15:

     The third role, acquiescent was mostly identified in the interviews when students highlighted their willingness to accept suggested placements [...] and stressed that they could adapt to given conditions...

     (italics as in the original)

2. Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit.

   an acquiescent policy

同意語

• (conceding to a sin or crime): complicit

派生語

関連する語

参考

• quiescent

参照

• “acquiescent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.