Antonyms for complaisant

Grammar : Adj

Spell : kuh m-pley-suh nt, -zuh nt, kom-pluh-zant

Phonetic Transcription : kəmˈpleɪ sənt, -zənt, ˈkɒm pləˌzænt

Definition of complaisant

Origin : 1640s, from French complaisant (16c.), in Middle French, "pleasing," present participle of complaire "acquiesce to please," from Latin complacere "be very pleasing" (see complacent, with which it overlapped till mid-19c.). Possibly influenced in French by Old French plaire "gratify."

adj agreeable

Example sentences :

And loves me just enough to advise me to be complaisant to a man I despise.
Extract from : « A Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales » by Guy De Maupassant

He could even, when so disposed, become gentle and complaisant.
Extract from : « The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck » by Baron Trenck

But she who had murmured as a wife was not complaisant as a mistress.
Extract from : « Paul Clifford, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Even the most complaisant women like at least the appearance of a siege.
Extract from : « A Little Journey in the World » by Charles Dudley Warner

Probably of the complaisant model who ventures into Lochias at night?
Extract from : « The Emperor, Complete » by Georg Ebers

For him the goddess of Chance had smiled, and he was in the most complaisant humour.
Extract from : « Richard Carvel, Complete » by Winston Churchill

Possibly a too complaisant and unaggressive Nature had spoiled them.
Extract from : « Openings in the Old Trail » by Bret Harte

But these complaisant men soon repented of their submission.
Extract from : « The River War » by Winston S. Churchill

There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant.
Extract from : « Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume II (of 2) » by Harriet Martineau

It is vain to profess to one's own heart a complaisant dandyism of misanthropy.
Extract from : « Cosmopolis, Complete » by Paul Bourget

Synonyms for complaisant

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