Complaisant meaning

kəm-plā'sənt, -zənt
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The definition of complaisant is someone who is agreeable and who wants or tries to please.

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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Exhibiting a desire or willingness to please; cheerfully obliging.
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Willing to please; affably agreeable; obliging.
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Willing to do what pleases others.
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(archaic) Polite, showing respect.
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Origin of complaisant

  • French from Old French present participle of complaire to please from Latin complacēre complacent
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From French complaisant (“willing to please”), from complaire, from Latin complacēre, present active infinitive of complaceō (“please well”), from com- (“with”) + placeō (“please”).
    From Wiktionary

Complaisant Sentence Examples

  • Can we really sit back and watch the suffering of a whole nation and be so complaisant?

  • Concerning his second marriage, it suffices to say that the Baroness Imhoff was nearly forty years of age, with a family of grown-up children, when the complaisant law of her native land allowed her to become Mrs Hastings.

  • Pellisson.s methods of conversion, considered too slow, were accelerated by the violent persecution of Louvois and by the kings galleys, sion of until the day came when Louis XIV., deceived by the the edict clergy, crowned his record of complaisant legal methods by revoking the edict of Nantes.

  • That most favourable to him is that he was expected to lend himself in a more or less complaisant manner to assist and cover Madame d'Epinay's adulterous affection for Grimm.

  • The first president was Mr Hoffman, but he was accused of being too complaisant towards Moshesh and resigned, being succeeded in 1855 by Mr J.

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