Complaisant
[kəm'pleɪz(ə)nt]
Definition
(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' .
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Definition
(a.) Desirous to please; courteous; obliging; compliant; as, a complaisant gentleman.
Typist: Shelley
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Courteous, polite, affable, civil, obliging, gracious, complacent, debonair, familiar, easy, well-bred.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See POLITE]
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Definition
adj. desirous of pleasing; obliging.—n. Com′plaisance (or Complaisance′) care or desire to please: an obliging civility.—adv. Com′plaisantly (or Complaisant′ly).
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Examples
- It was well enough inclined, too, to be complaisant to the king of England. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The behaviour of the young colt and foal appeared very modest, and that of the master and mistress extremely cheerful and complaisant to their guest. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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