complaisancenoun [ U ]
uk/kəmˈpleɪ.zəns/us/kəmˈpleɪ.səns/formalwillingness to please others by being polite and fitting in with their plans
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Obedient and compliant
- accordance
- acquiescent
- adherence
- answer to sb
- be (like) sheep idiom
- clean
- clean up your act idiom
- creature
- dutiful
- easy
- follower
- I'm easy idiom
- obedience
- obedient
- slavish
- slavishly
- subservient
- tie
- tied to your mother's/wife's apron strings idiom
- tractable
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complaisant
adjective uk/kəmˈpleɪ.zənt/us/kəmˈpleɪ.sənt/
Examples from literature
- He can refuse them nothing, and even carries his complaisance so far as to give them marks of affection without really liking them.
- I am ashamed to say that hitherto I have only given myself out of mere complaisance.
- The flattering complaisance of the latter counterbalances the rough honesty of the former.
- This complaisance did not raise him in estimation at Vienna or elsewhere.
- We yielded at last, out of complaisance towards her, and were rewarded by feeling wonderfully refreshed by a solid meal.