About The Word Complaisant
Learn about the word Complaisant to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Complaisant definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Complaisant
| Complaisant Definition And Meaning |
|---|
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.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Browse ‐ the act of feeding by continual nibbling [n] reading superficially…
- Genus sciaena ‐ type genus of the…
- Jawless fish ‐ eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including…
- Scarlet bush ‐ handsome shrub with showy orange to scarlet or crimson flowers;…
- Coevals ‐ all the people living at the same time or of approximately the…
- Rotary converter ‐ electrical converter consisting of a synchronous machine that…
- Chimonanthus ‐ small genus of Asian deciduous or evergreen shrubs having fragrant…
- Bodhisattva ‐ Buddhist worthy of nirvana who postpones it to…
- Pumpkin vine ‐ a coarse vine widely cultivated for its non-keeping large pulpy…
- Genus cacatua ‐ a genus of…