complaisant

adjective
🔊/kəmˈpleɪzənt/
🔊/kəmˈpleɪzənt/
(old-fashioned)
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  1. ready to accept other people’s actions and opinions and to do what other people want顺从的;殷勤的
    • She was a complaisant wife and dutiful daughter.她是一个自满的妻子和孝顺的女儿。
    Topics Discussion and agreementc2
    Word Originmid 17th cent.: French, from complaire ‘acquiesce in order to please’, from Latin complacere ‘to please’.