transigent

Willing to compromise.

Adjective

  1. Willing to compromise.
    • But in the second half scientists will undoubtedly make progress in synthesizing the hormones, the mysterious secretions of the ductless glands which regulate the make-up of our personalities, determining whether we are...
    • Armed Forces Minister General Enrique Prez y Prez, under whom the army has become more transigent, promised last week that the armed forces "will respect the popular will." - 1966 April 22, “Unaccustomed Calm”, in Time,...
    • As the editors of the Gazeta da Tarde explained their position, “Intransigent in principles, we are, however, transigent in facts.” - 1972, Robert Brent Toplin, The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil, Atheneum, →ISBN, page...

Origin

Back-formation from intransigent.

Forms

more transigent most transigent

Synonyms

compromising

Noun

  1. A person who is willing to compromise or to be brought to terms.
    • As in other areas, in this field the traditional distinction between transigents and intransigents was clearly at work. - 2009, Giuseppe Maria Finaldi, Italian National Identity in the Scramble for Africa: Italy's...

Forms

transigents