different between regardful vs acquiescent

English

Etymology

From regard +? -ful.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??????df?l/

Adjective

regardful (comparative more regardful, superlative most regardful)

1. Respectful. [from 16th c.]
2. (now rare) Watchful, observant. [from 16th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.7:

     And evermore, when with regardfull sight / She looking backe espies that griesly wight / Approching nigh, she gins to mend her pace […].

English

Etymology

From Latin acquiescens, -entis; present participle.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /æ?kwi.?sn?t/

Adjective

acquiescent (comparative more acquiescent, superlative most acquiescent)

1. willing to acquiesce, accept or agree to something without objection, protest or resistance
2. resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit

Synonyms

• (conceding to a sin or crime): complicit

Derived terms

• acquiescently

Related terms

Translations

See also

• quiescent

References

• acquiescent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Verb

acquiescent

1. third-person plural present indicative of acquiescer
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of acquiescer

Latin

Verb

acqui?scent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of acqui?sc?