Synonyms for complaisant
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : kuh m-pley-suh nt, -zuh nt, kom-pluh-zant |
| Phonetic Transcription : kəmˈpleɪ sənt, -zənt, ˈkɒm pləˌzænt |
Top 10 synonyms for complaisant
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for complaisant
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