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.

Additional info about word: COMPLAISANT

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPLAISANT)

• affable
• Courteous
• accessible
• condescending
• conversible
• gracious
• sociable
• gentle
• complaisant
• urbane
• polite
• easy
• approachable
• Agreeable
• Obliging
• pleasant
• accommodating
• grateful
• acceptable
• welcome
• suitable
• consistent
• consonant
• amiable
• gratifying
• pleasing
• good-natured
• Bland
• Soft
• mild
• courteous
• tender
• benign
• Civil
• Well-mannered
• political
• well-bred
• obliging
• respectful
• Kind
• considerate
• compliant

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COMPLAISANT)

• Withhold
• withdraw
• retain
• appropriate

Related words: (words related to COMPLAISANT)

• 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.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• 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;
• 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,
• ANTHROPOLITE
  A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.
• INCIVIL
  Uncivil; rude. Shak.
• 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.