com·plai·sant (k m-pl  snt, -znt)adj. Exhibiting a desire or willingness to please; cheerfully obliging.
[French, from Old French, present participle of complaire, to please, from Latin complac re; see complacent.]
com·plaisant·ly adv. |
complaisant [kəmˈpleɪzənt]adj showing a desire to comply or oblige; polite [from French complaire, from Latin complacēre to please greatly; compare complacent] complaisantly adv
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms | Adj. | 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"; "the obliging waiter was in no hurry for us to leave"accommodating, accommodative - helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation; "the warden was always accommodating in allowing visitors in"; "made a special effort to be accommodating" |
Translations complaisant [kəmˈpleɪzənt] (old-fashioned) adj → complaisant(e) complaisant adj, complaisantly
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| Bennet before breakfast, a conversation beginning with his parsonage-house, and leading naturally to the avowal of his hopes, that a mistress might be found for it at Longbourn, produced from her, amid very complaisant smiles and general encouragement, a caution against the very Jane he had fixed on. But he had fancied her in love with him; that evidently must have been his dependence; and after raving a little about the seeming incongruity of gentle manners and a conceited head, Emma was obliged in common honesty to stop and admit that her own behaviour to him had been so complaisant and obliging, so full of courtesy and attention, as (supposing her real motive unperceived) might warrant a man of ordinary observation and delicacy, like Mr. The people, who had often heard of me, were very curious to crowd about the sedan, and the girl was complaisant enough to make the bearers stop, and to take me in her hand, that I might be more conveniently seen. |