Quick Definition
ἀνθρωπάρεσκος, ον Adj desirous of pleasing men
Strong's Definition
from 444 and 700; man-courting, i.e. fawning
KJV Usage: men-pleaser
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
adjc. | -ον | ἄνθρωπος + ἀρέσκω
25.98 · Attitudes and Emotions · Acceptable To, To Be Pleased With
pleasing people, men-pleaser pertaining to causing people to be pleased, with the implication of being in contrast to God or at the sacrifice of some principle The expression ‘men-pleasers’ may often be rendered as ‘those who are just trying to make people like them.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀνθρωπ-άρεσκος, -ov, (ἄνθρωπος and ἄρεσκος agreeable, pleasing, insinuating; cf. εὐάρεσκος, δυσάρεσκος, αὐτάpeoxos in Lob. ad Phryn. p. 621); only in bibl. and heccl. writ. [W. 25]: studying to please men, courting the favor of men: Eph. vi. 6; Col. iii. 22. (Ps. lii. (liii.) 6 ; [Ps. Sal. iv. 8, 10].)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀνθρωπάρεσκος anthrōpareskos 2x
desirous of pleasing men, Eph. 6:6; Col. 3:22*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
† ἀνθρωπ-άρεσκος, -ον
(ἄνθρωπος, ἄρεσκος, pleasing), [in LXX: Ps 52 (53):5*;]
studying to please men: Eph 6:6, Col 3:22 (Cremer, 642; MM, VGT, s.v.).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀνθρωπάρεσκος, which starts in LXX and Pss. So/., was presumably as much a coinage as our own ‘‘men-pleasers,”’ but made in a language where compounds are more at home than in ours. If this is a ‘‘ Bibl.” word, it is only an instance of the fact that every Greek writer made a new compound when his meaning required one. Lobeck on Péryz., p. 621, cites αὐτάρεσκος from Apoll. de Conjunct., p. 504.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀνθρωπάρεσκος (anthrōpareskos) — people-pleaser. ἀνθρωπ-άρεσκος [ᾰρ], ὁ, man-pleaser, [LXX+NT]