Shes an acquiescent beauty. Does that make sense?

Factual Questions
1

If so how. I know the word acquiesce means basically to comply willingly but acquiescent beauty? Do these two words have any relevance to each other?

I’m asking this because a friend of mine used this in a sentence and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t even know what the hell he’s saying. He basically thinks it means a girl who’s really hot and well mannered. WTH?

2

If he means she complies willingly with his wishes (nudge, wink,) then it makes a lot of sense. When I was in high school, we called the acquiescent gals “philanthropic.”

3

Would that make the guys benefactors?

4

Okay, kidding aside, there is one way that the phrase “acquiescent beauty” can be used in normal English - if “beauty” is being used in place of “person”. So “she’s an acquiescent person” where the speaker/writer happens to be using the word “beauty” as a sub for person. (when a word describing a thing’s attribute is used for the overall thing, that’s a synecdoche - si-NECK-doe-key - another example would be to use “iron” from “sword” in “it’s a good piece of iron”.

So it might be appropriate along those lines. Something like “She HAS an acquiescent beauty” would be incorrect IMHO - sounds arty and fancy, but doesn’t make sense given the traditional meanings of the words…

5

shoot - that’s “iron FOR sword”…

6

So the short answer is: no. Your friend is talking out of his ass and probably has a thesaurus up there with him.

7

just a WAG. maybe he is trying to say a quiescent beauty

so perhaps a tranquil beauty… don’t know if that makes more sense.

8

The phrase makes perfect sense to me. So the short answer is: yes.
She’s beautiful and she acquiesces. He’s saying she, not her beauty, is acquiescent. “Quiescent” has a different implications.

9

It’s crap. Sounds like something from a stoned 7th grader’s D&D notebook.

On the other hand, it makes perfect sense if he’s talking about my. When I go walking down the levee, all the mens they say, whoo, boy, she’s an acquiecent beauty, ‘n’ bodacious. They’re blind drink and suffering from the muskrat fever, but that’s what they say when I go walking by.

10

I agree with WordMan and FranticMad… it makes perfect sense.