Acquiescent vs Dormant - What's the difference?
acquiescent | dormant | Related terms |
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.
Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
* Burke
(heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
Acquiescent is a related term of dormant.
As adjectives the difference between acquiescent and dormant
is that acquiescent is willing to acquiesce, accept or agree to something without objection, protest or resistance while dormant is inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.acquiescent
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Adjective
(en adjective)See also
* quiescentReferences
* ----dormant
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Alternative forms
* dormaunt (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.
- The bank account was dormant ; there had been no transactions in months.
- This volcano is dormant but not extinct.
- It is by lying dormant a long time, or being very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people.
- a lion dormant