complaisant

complaisant
    adj 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" [syn: {complaisant}, {obliging}]
    

Complaisant \Com"plai*sant\, a. [F. complaisant, p. pr. of
   complaire to acquiesce as a favor, fr. L. complacere. See
   {Complacent}.]
   Desirous to please; courteous; obliging; compliant; as, a
   complaisant gentleman.
   [1913 Webster]

         There are to whom my satire seems too bold:
         Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough. --Pope.

   Syn: Obliging; courteous; affable; gracious; civil; polite;
        well-bred. See {Obliging}. -- {Com"plai*sant`ly}, adv.
        -- {Com"plai*sant`ness}, n.
        [1913 Webster]
    

121 Moby Thesaurus words for "complaisant":
      abject, accepting, accommodating, accommodative, acquiescent,
      adaptable, adaptive, adjustable, affable, agreeable, amiable,
      amicable, assenting, attentive, benevolent, benign, benignant,
      blissful, cheerful, civil, compatible, compliable, compliant,
      complying, conformable, congenial, consenting, considerate,
      cordial, courteous, decent, deferential, delicate, desirable,
      dulcet, easy, en rapport, enjoyable, fair, fair and pleasant,
      felicific, felicitous, fine, flexible, generous, genial, gentle,
      good, good-humored, good-natured, good-tempered, goodly, graceful,
      gracious, grateful, gratifying, harmonious, heart-warming, heedful,
      helpful, honeyed, indulgent, kind, kindly, lenient, likable,
      malleable, mellifluous, mellow, mellowy, mild, mindful,
      mindful of others, mollified, nice, nondissenting, nonresistant,
      nonresisting, nonresistive, nonrigid, obedient, obliging,
      other-directed, overindulgent, overpermissive, passive, permissive,
      plastic, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving,
      pleasureful, pliant, polite, regardful, resigned, respectful,
      rewarding, satisfying, servile, soft, soft as putty, softened,
      solicitous, submissive, subservient, supine, sweet, tactful,
      tender, thoughtful, tolerant, tractable, unassertive,
      uncomplaining, unresistant, unresisting, urbane, welcome,
      whisper-soft