assenting

4.5

Showing agreement, often by a gesture, look, or voice

adjective
/əˈsɛntɪŋ/

Formal

: asentido

The board members exchanged assenting glances as they voted unanimously in favor of the new policy.

Examples

His assenting expression indicated that he fully supported the decision made by the team.
The committee made an assenting nod when the proposal for the new project was presented.
But the thing itself, the institution, is a true and assenting agony you never expected, and you begin to understand that no authority you looked to as a guide has perhaps ever portrayed it accurately.

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Synonyms

affirmatory

vsassenting

1 7.4

Expressing approval or agreement

is showing agreement generally rather than making a formal declaration

assentient

vsassenting

Formal

9.9

Showing that a person agrees or approves

expresses immediate agreement or approval rather than a tendency

consenting

vsassenting

3.9

People who have given permission after thinking about it

expresses approval or consent now rather than stating a past permission

Antonyms

dissenting

6.7

Showing disagreement with a decision or opinion of most people

How Agreeing

enthusiastic

175 2.7

assenting

Formal

4.5

supportive

348 2.8

Surface Forms

assenting positive

Morphology

assenting = assent (transparent) = assent + ing

A standard participial adjective formed from the verb 'assent' plus the productive suffix '-ing', so the meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Assenting comes from Latin parts ad- 'to' and sentire 'to feel', so to assent is like 'feeling toward' something and therefore to agree. You can see the same root in consent and sense, which helps explain why assenting means showing agreement.