complaisant

The definition of complaisant is someone who is agreeable and who wants or tries to please.

(adjective)

A happy-go-lucky girl who is agreeable, doesn't fight and does what others want her to do is an example of someone who is complaisant.

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See complaisant in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

willing to please; affably agreeable; obliging

Origin: Fr, prp. of complaire < L complacere: see complacent

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See complaisant in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective
Exhibiting a desire or willingness to please; cheerfully obliging.

Origin:

Origin: French

Origin: , from Old French

Origin: , present participle of complaire, to please

Origin: , from Latin complacēre; see complacent

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  • com·plaiˈsant·ly adverb

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