complaisant

1. 1.

   showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others

   “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”

   Synonymsobliging

   Similaraccommodating

Questions about complaisant

What does complaisant mean?

complaisant means "showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others".

How many syllables are in complaisant?

complaisant has 3 syllables: com-plai-sant. The stress falls on "plai". In IPA it is /kəmˈpleɪsənt/.

What is another word for complaisant?

Close synonyms include obliging. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is complaisant a common word?

complaisant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with complaisant?

1 word rhymes with complaisant. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.