complaisant
eager to please or agree with others
Roots
Other words with the plac root
- complacent: self-satisfied and unaware of risk
- implacable: unable to be appeased
- placate: to calm someone down
- placatory: intended to soothe, calm, or appease
- placebo: inactive treatment that may still produce a perceived benefit
- placid: calm, peaceful, and undisturbed
- placidity: calmness or peaceful stillness
Complaisant means ready to please: agreeable in a way that can become too yielding.
The complaisant assistant agreed to every request until the schedule collapsed.
Complaisant and complacent are cousins, not twins. Complaisant bends toward another person's wishes; complacent rests too comfortably in its own satisfaction.