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Word Meanings - COMPLAISANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Desirous to please; courteous; obliging; compliant; as, a complaisant gentleman. There are to whom my satire seems too bold: Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough. Pope. Syn. -- Obliging; courteous; affable; gracious; civil; polite; well-bred.

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Desirous to please; courteous; obliging; compliant; as, a complaisant gentleman. There are to whom my satire seems too bold: Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough. Pope. Syn. -- Obliging; courteous; affable; gracious; civil; polite; well-bred. See Obliging. -- Com"plai*sant`ly, adv. -- Com"plai*sant`ness, n.

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  • URBANE
    Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.
  • ACCEPTABLE
    Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
  • TENDER
    A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
  • POLITENESS
    1. High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance. Evelyn. 2. The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions. Syn. -- Courtesy; good breeding; refinement; urbanity;
  • APPROPRIATENESS
    The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
  • POLITE
    1. Smooth; polished. Rays of light falling on a polite surface. Sir I. Newton. 2. Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil. He marries, bows at court, and grows polite. Pope. 3. Characterized
  • BLANDLY
    In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.
  • OBLIGABLE
    Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy. The main difference between people seems to be, that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely, -- is obligable; and another is not. Emerson.
  • BLANDNESS
    The state or quality of being bland.
  • CONSISTENTLY
    In a consistent manner.
  • AMIABLENESS
    The quality of being amiable; amiability.
  • OBLIGER
    One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
  • TENDERLY
    In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
  • TENDERNESS
    The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
  • AMIABLE
    friend, fr. amare to love. The meaning has been influenced by F. aimable, L. amabilis lovable, fr. amare to love. Cf. Amicable, 1. Lovable; lovely; pleasing. So amiable a prospect. Sir T. Herbert. 2. Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious;
  • RETAINMENT
    The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
  • OBLIGEMENT
    Obligation. I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton.
  • APPROPRIATE
    Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
  • WITHDRAWAL
    The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
  • DISAGREEABLENESS
    The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
  • INGRATEFUL
    1. Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury. 2. Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive. He gives . . . no ingrateful food. Milton. -- In"grate`ful*ly, adv. -- In"grate`ful*ness,
  • INCIVIL
    Uncivil; rude. Shak.
  • ANTHROPOLITE
    A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.
  • DISGRACIOUS
    Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.
  • METROPOLITICAL
    Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall.
  • UNPOLITE
    Not polite; impolite; rude. -- Un`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Un`po*lite"ness, n.

 

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