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Complaisant vs Amenable - What's the difference?

complaisant | amenable |

As adjectives the difference between complaisant and amenable

is that complaisant is compliant while amenable is willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.

complaisant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • compliant
  • Willing to do what pleases others.
  • (archaic) polite, showing respect

    • Usage notes

    * (term) should not be confused with its homophone, complacent.

    Derived terms

    * complaisantly

    amenable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
  • Willing to comply with; agreeable.
  • (math, of a group) Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.

    • Antonyms

    * unamenable

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