Complaisant \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.
[1913 Webster]
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. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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" [syn: obliging]
WordNet (r) 2.0
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, good-natured, good-tempered, goodly, 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, pleasure-giving,
pleasureful, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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