compliant

compliant, acquiescent, resigned, and their corresponding nouns compliance, acquiescence, resignation, are com-parable when used in reference to a person, a mood, or a disposition that manifests acceptance (as of another's will or of something disagreeable or hard to endure).

Compliant suggests a flexibility or lack of firmness in mood or temperament and frequently implies readiness to accept meekly and without question

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educational methods that make children compliant

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a naturally compliant race

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Acquiescent implies acceptance without protest or rebellion; it often also connotes a temperamental lack of self-assertiveness

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the cause of reform slowly went on gaining adherents—most of them ... of the acquiescent rather than the militant type— Grandgent

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Resigned usually presupposes a disposition or a temperament neither compliant nor acquiescent and implies deliberate but not necessarily happy acceptance and resolute forbearance from repining

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he had become resigned to her perpetual lamentation— Meredith

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resignation to inevitable evils is the duty of us all— Austen

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Analogous words: *obedient, amenable, tractable, docile: submissive, *tame, subdued: accommodating, conforming, adapting or adaptable (see corresponding verbs at ADAPT)

Antonyms: froward

Contrasted words: *contrary, perverse, balky, restive, wayward: refractory, recalcitrant, *unruly, ungovernable, intractable, willful, headstrong