Complaisant vs Agreeable - What's the difference?
complaisant | agreeable | Related terms |
compliant
Willing to do what pleases others.
(archaic) polite, showing respect
Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.
* (rfdate) (Oliver Goldsmith):
(colloquial) Willing; ready to agree or consent.
* (rfdate) (Hugh Latimer):
Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; .
* (rfdate) (w, Roger L'Estrange):
In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; (used adverbially)
Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.
* 1855 , Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)
Complaisant is a related term of agreeable.
As adjectives the difference between complaisant and agreeable
is that complaisant is compliant while agreeable is pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.As a noun agreeable is
something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.complaisant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
* (term) should not be confused with its homophone, complacent.Derived terms
* complaisantlyagreeable
English
(Webster 1913)Adjective
(en adjective)- agreeable manners
- agreeable remarks
- an agreeable person
- fruit agreeable to the taste
- A train of agreeable reveries.
- These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town.
- That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another.
- Agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.
Synonyms
*Noun
(en noun)- The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.