Complaisant

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  • adjective. Exhibiting a desire or willingness to please; cheerfully obliging.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Disposed to please; pleasing in manners; compliantly disposed; exhibiting complaisance; affable; gracious; obliging.
  • Synonyms Courteous, Urbane, etc. See polite.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Desirous to please; courteous; obliging; compliant.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. compliant
  • adjective. Willing to do what pleases others.
  • adjective. polite, showing respect
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  • adjective. showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others
    • Word Usage
    "They cannot rightly be called complaisant, since they do not know, but they are good creatures who cannot see farther than their nose."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    controversial  disobedient  disputatious  obstinate  perverse  
    cross-reference
    obedient  obliging  
    Equivalent
    accommodating  accommodative  
    Form
    complaisantly  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    adjacent  complacent  nascent  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    affable  benignant  communicative  conciliatory  considerate  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abject  accepting  accommodating  accommodative  acquiescent  
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