Dictionary Definition
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /kəmˈpleɪsənt/
Homophones
Derived terms
Translations
compliant
- Dutch: voldoend (aan), passend
willing to do what pleases others
- Dutch: tegemoetkomend, welwillend, willig
- German: gefällig, entgegenkommend, wohlwollend
polite
- Dutch: tegemoetkomend, vriendelijk, respectvol
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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