complaisant (redirected from complaisantly)

com·plai·sant  (km-plsnt, -znt)

adj.

Exhibiting a desire or willingness to please; cheerfully obliging.

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[French, from Old French, present participle of complaire, to please, from Latin complacre; see complacent.]

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com·plaisant·ly adv.

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complaisant [kom-play-zant]

Adjective

willing to please or oblige [Latin complacere to please greatly]

complaisance n

Thesaurus

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" obliging 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"