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obliging

3 syllables
adjectivenoun
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As an adjective, obliging means happy and ready to do favours for others. As a noun, it means the imposition of an obligation.

Meanings of obliging

3 meanings

adjective

  1. Happy and ready to do favours for others.

  2. 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”

    Similar: complaisant

verb

Present participle of oblige

noun

  1. The imposition of an obligation.

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

adjective: showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others
complaisant

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