(old-fashioned) ready to accept other people's actions and opinions and to do what other people want:
She was a complaisant wife and dutiful daughter.
complaisance noun [U]
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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In this entry, complaisant is tagged as adjective.
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