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- Dictionaryobliging/əˈblʌɪdʒɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. willing to do a service or kindness; helpful: "one of the most obliging stewards"
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The meaning of OBLIGING is willing to do favors : helpful. How to use obliging in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Obliging.
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. neighbourly. nicely. thoughtfulness. unmaliciously. unspoiled. warm-hearted.
Obliging is used to describe someone who is willing or eager to politely do things for others, such as performing favors or services for them, as in a most obliging host. It can also describe such a person’s actions, as in We appreciate your obliging service. A close synonym is accommodating.
If you describe someone as obliging, you think that they are willing and eager to be helpful. He is an extremely pleasant and obliging man. American English : obliging / əˈblaɪdʒɪŋ /
If you're obliging, you're easy to get along with and eager to help. An obliging neighbor, for example, might volunteer to shovel your sidewalk after it snows. The adjective obliging is perfect for describing someone who is especially considerate and helpful.
1. : to constrain by physical, moral, or legal force or by the exigencies of circumstance. obliged to find a job. felt obliged to share it with her. 2. a. : to put in one's debt by a favor or service. We are much obliged for your help. b. : to do a favor for. always ready to oblige a friend. intransitive verb.
Definition of obliging adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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. neighborliness. neighborly. nicely. thoughtfulness. unmaliciously. unspoiled. warm-hearted.
to please or help someone, especially by doing something they have asked you to do: We only went to the party to oblige some old friends who asked us to be there. We needed a guide and he was only too happy to oblige. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
If you describe someone as obliging, you think that they are willing and eager to be helpful.
