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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 com·plai·sant /-sṇt, zṇt, ˈzænt, ˈzɑnt/
 (a.)彬彬有禮的,慇懃的,柔順的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Com·plai·sant a.  Desirous to please; courteous; obliging; compliant; as, a complaisant gentleman.
 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.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 complaisant
      adj : 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: obliging]