About The Word Complaisant
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Complaisant
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What's The Definition Of Complaisant?
[adj] showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others; "to close one's eyes like a complaisant husband whose wife has taken a lover"; "the obliging waiter was in no hurry for us to leave"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Complaisant: accommodating | accommodative | obliging Related Terms | Find terms related to Complaisant: abject | accepting | accommodating | accommodative | acquiescent | adaptable | adaptive | adjustable | affable | agreeable | amiable | amicable | assenting | attentive | benevolent | benign | benignant | blissful | cheerful | civil | compatible | compliable | compliant | complying | conformable | congenial | consenting | considerate | cordial | courteous | decent | deferential | delicate | desirable | dulcet | easy | en rapport | enjoyable | fair | fair and pleasant | felicific | felicitous | fine | flexible | generous | genial | gentle | good | good-humored | goodly | good-natured | good-tempered | graceful | gracious | grateful | gratifying | harmonious | heart-warming | heedful | helpful | honeyed | indulgent | kind | kindly | lenient | likable | malleable | mellifluous | mellow | mellowy | mild | mindful | mindful of others | mollified | nice | nondissenting | nonresistant | nonresisting | nonresistive | nonrigid | obedient | obliging | other-directed | overindulgent | overpermissive | passive | permissive | plastic | pleasant | pleasing | pleasurable | pleasureful | pleasure-giving | pliant | polite | regardful | resigned | respectful | rewarding | satisfying | servile | soft | soft as putty | softened | solicitous | submissive | subservient | supine | sweet | tactful | tender | thoughtful | tolerant | tractable | unassertive | uncomplaining | unresistant | unresisting | urbane | welcome | whisper-soft See Also | Complaisant In Webster's Dictionary \Com"plai*sant\, a. [F. complaisant, p. pr. of
complaire to acquiesce as a favor, fr. L. complacere. See
{Complacent}.]
Desirous to please; courteous; obliging; compliant; as, a
complaisant gentleman.
There are to whom my satire seems too bold: Scarce to
wise Peter complaisant enough. --Pope.
Syn: Obliging; courteous; affable; gracious; civil; polite;
well-bred. See {Obliging}. -- {Com"plai*sant`ly}, adv.
-- {Com"plai*sant`ness}, n.
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