Synonyms for complaisant
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Passive — willing to do what pleases others; obliging; agreeable
easy, passive, compliant, indulgent, tractable, pliant, amenable, biddable, yielding, manageable, submissive, obedient, docile
2. Polite — polite; showing respect
polite, civil, gracious, accommodating, courteous, affable, urbane, mannerly, kind, well-bred, respectful, benign, complacent, agreeable, good-natured, amiable, refined, benevolent, well-mannered, amicable, genial, debonair
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Definitions
- adj. 1
Willing to do what pleases others; obliging; agreeable.
- adj. 2
Polite; showing respect.
Related words
- Word family
- complaisance
- Phrases
- mari complaisant
Choose the right word
Complaisant denotes a disposition to please or favor beyond what politeness would necessarily require.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- passive Passive smokers are the victims of active smokers.
- compliant Let me talk to her! She will be compliant with me.
- indulgent I suppose we're a little too indulgent to the dog.
- tractable It may not be easy, but this problem is tractable.
- civil In the 1990s, Algeria was driven into a civil war.
- polite My mother taught me that it's not polite to point.
By length
- 4 letters
- kind1, easy2
- 5 letters
- civil2
- 6 letters
- polite2, benign2, docile2, genial2, urbane2, pliant2
- 7 letters
- passive2, refined2, amiable4, affable3
- 8 letters
- gracious2, yielding2, obedient4, amicable4, amenable4, obliging3, debonair3, biddable3, mannerly
- 9 letters
- compliant3, courteous3, agreeable4, indulgent3, tractable3
- 10 letters
- respectful3, manageable4, benevolent4, submissive3, complacent3
- 13 letters
- accommodating5, accommodative5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (easy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- complaisant