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- DictionaryO·blig·ing/əˈblījiNG/
adjective
- 1. willing to do a service or kindness; helpful: "one of the most obliging stewards"
The meaning of OBLIGING is willing to do favors : helpful. How to use obliging in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Obliging.
The adjective obliging is perfect for describing someone who is especially considerate and helpful. An obliging co-worker will always come to your aid or chip in for donuts, and an obliging roommate will turn off her light when you're ready to go to sleep.
adjective. approving uk / əˈblaɪ.dʒɪŋ / us / əˈblaɪ.dʒɪŋ / Add to word list. willing or eager to help: He found an obliging doctor who gave him the drugs he needed. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Kind & thoughtful. accommodatingly. attentively. attentiveness. cooperatively. diplomacy. diplomatically. eunoia. motherly. neighbourliness.
Synonyms for OBLIGING: friendly, accommodative, accommodating, indulgent, helpful, solicitous, considerate, amenable; Antonyms of OBLIGING: bothering, troubling, disturbing, weighing, disobliging, burdening, failing, encumbering
If you describe someone as obliging, you think that they are willing and eager to be helpful. [old-fashioned, or written, approval] He is an extremely pleasant and obliging man. Synonyms: accommodating, kind, helpful, willing More Synonyms of obliging. obligingly adverb [ADVERB with verb]
Definition of obliging adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
If you describe someone as obliging, you think that they are willing and eager to be helpful.
Ready to do favors; helpful; courteous; accommodating. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Synonyms: complaisant. indulgent. agreeable. accommodating. Antonyms: inconsiderate. disobliging. unfriendly. uncooperative. unhelpful. mean. verb. Present participle of oblige. Wiktionary. Synonyms: coercing. making. pressuring. compelling. forcing.
to force someone to do something, or to make it necessary for someone to do something: The law obliges companies to pay decent wages to their employees. The law does not obligate sellers to accept the highest offer. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Causing somebody to act. arm-twisting. bludgeon. bounce someone into something.
obliging - 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"
