complaisant as an adjective: - 1
complaisant
adjective
1 complaisant
Showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others:
— To close one's eyes like a complaisant husband whose wife has taken a lover.
synonym: obliging.
Roget 894:
courteous,
polite,
civil,
mannerly,
urbane;
well-behaved,
well-mannered,
well-bred,
well-brought up;
good-mannered,
polished,
civilized,
cultivated;
refined
etc.
(taste)
850;
gentlemanlike
etc.
(fashion)
852†;
gallant;
on one's good behavior.
fine spoken,
fair spoken,
soft-spoken;
honey-mouthed,
honey-tongued;
oily,
bland;
obliging,
conciliatory,
complaisant,
complacent;
obsequious
etc.
886.
ingratiating,
winning;
gentle,
mild;
good-humored,
cordial,
gracious,
affable,
familiar;
neighborly.
diplomatic,
tactful,
politic;
artful
etc.
702.
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Roget 906:
benevolent;
kind,
kindly;
well-meaning;
amiable;
obliging,
accommodating,
indulgent,
gracious,
complacent,
good-humored.
warm-hearted,
kind-hearted,
tender-hearted,
large-hearted,
broad-hearted;
merciful
etc.
914;
charitable,
beneficent,
humane,
benignant;
bounteous,
bountiful.
good-natured,
well-natured;
spleenless†;
sympathizing,
sympathetic;
complaisant
etc.
(courteous)
894;
well-meant,
well-intentioned.
fatherly,
motherly,
brotherly,
sisterly;
paternal,
maternal,
fraternal;
sororal†;
friendly
etc.
888.
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Polish: pomocny, uczynny
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