Local English word record

complaisant

adjective · 1 sense

showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others

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Examples

  • to close one's eyes like a complaisant husband whose wife has taken a lover
  • the obliging waiter was in no hurry for us to leave

Word relationships

Synonyms

obliging

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