Usually means: Eager to please, accommodating attitude.
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  1. complaisant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. complaisant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. complaisant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. complaisant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. complaisant: Vocabulary.com
  6. complaisant: Wordnik
  7. complaisant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. complaisant: Wiktionary
  9. complaisant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. complaisant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. complaisant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Complaisant, complaisant: Dictionary.com
  13. complaisant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Complaisant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. complaisant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. complaisant: Rhymezone
  17. complaisant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. complaisant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. complaisant: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. complaisant: Free Dictionary
  21. complaisant: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. complaisant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. complaisant: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. complaisant: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (complaisant)

adjective:  Compliant.
adjective:  Willing to do what pleases others; obliging; agreeable.
adjective:  (archaic) Polite; showing respect.

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