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complaisant

UK/kəmˈpleɪsənt//kəmˈpleɪsənt/

complaisant adjective: compliant.

Adjective

complaisant (comparative more complaisant, superlative most complaisant)

  1. Compliant.
  2. Willing to do what pleases others; obliging; agreeable.
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      You threw your accusations
      I'm always so complaisant
      I never change the station2015 May 12, Rachel Platten, Jon Levine, Scott Jacoby, “Congratulations”, in Fight Song, performed by Rachel Platten
  3. (archaic) Polite; showing respect.
    • The People who had often heard of me, were very curious to croud about the Sedan, and the Girl was complaiſant enough to make the Bearers ſtop, and to take me in her Hand that I might be conveniently ſeen.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Country Described. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC...

complaisant meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

complaisant in Urdu

خلیق, سلیس

complaisant in Bengali

অন্যকে খুশি করতে আগ্রহী, বিনয়ী

complaisant in Malayalam

agreeable, willing, acquiescent
അന്യരെ തൃപ്തിപ്പെടുത്താൻ താൽപ്പര്യമുള്ള, അനുനയമുള്ള, ഇണക്കമുള്ള, സമ്മതമുള്ള, വഴിപ്പെടുന്ന, അനുരോധക

Synonyms of complaisant

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Forms of complaisant

comparativemore complaisant
superlativemost complaisant

Origin of complaisant

From French complaisant (“willing to please”), from complaire, from Latin complacēre (“please well”), from com- (“with”) + placeō (“please”).

Words formed from complaisant

Phrases with complaisant

Questions about complaisant

What does complaisant mean?
Complaisant means compliant.
What is complaisant in Urdu?
Complaisant in Urdu is خلیق, سلیس. See Complaisant meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is complaisant?
Complaisant is an adjective.
How do you pronounce complaisant?
Complaisant is pronounced /kəmˈpleɪsənt/ (UK).

Words near complaisant in the dictionary

  1. complaintless
  2. complaints
  3. complainy
  4. complaisance
  5. complaisances
  6. complaisant
  7. complaisantly
  8. complaisantness
  9. complaisaunce
  10. complanadine
  11. complanadines

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: complaisant (page history and authors); complaisant (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); complaisant (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); complaisant (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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