Acquiescent vs Listless - What's the difference?
acquiescent | listless | 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.
Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.
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Acquiescent is a related term of listless.
As adjectives the difference between acquiescent and listless
is that acquiescent is willing to acquiesce, accept or agree to something without objection, protest or resistance while listless is lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.acquiescent
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(en adjective)See also
* quiescentReferences
* ----listless
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(en adjective)- I passed whole days on the lake alone in a little boat, watching the clouds and listening to the rippling of the waves, silent and listless .
- What an entirely different set of beings were those Stokesley children in lesson-time. . . . Poor, listless , stolid, deplorable logs, with bowed backs and crossed ankles, pipy voices and heavy eyes!
- The scene with Mrs. Wallace had broken his spirit, and he was listless now, indifferent to what happened.
John Hardy: Bali Guy," Time :
- “Listless , inattentive, distracted,” he recited. “A daydreamer. Tries his best, but is too slow.”
