Compliant vs Acquiescent - What's the difference?
compliant | acquiescent |
Willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.
Compatible with or following guidelines, specifications, rules, or laws.
willing to acquiesce, accept or agree to something without objection, protest or resistance
resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy.
As adjectives the difference between compliant and acquiescent
is that compliant is willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive; willing to do what someone wants while acquiescent is willing to acquiesce, accept or agree to something without objection, protest or resistance.compliant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The suspect was compliant when arrested.
- The browser is standards compliant .
- The workplace is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.