different between reverential vs acquiescent

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???v????n??l/

Adjective

reverential (comparative more reverential, superlative most reverential)

1. Showing or characterized by reverence; respectful.

   Synonym: reverent

   Antonym: irreverential

   • 2012, Jill Dolan, The Feminist Spectator as Critic (University of Michigan Press, ?ISBN), page 94:

     The reverential tone intensified as this section progressed. When each spectator had purportedly become her mother, she was invited to share her mother's wisdom, prefaced by the words "I always said."

Derived terms

• irreverential
• reverentially
• reverentialness

Anagrams

• interleaver

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?