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Definitions for: Obliging
[adj] 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"
[adj] happy to comply
Webster (1913) Definition: O*bli"ging, a.
Putting under obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors;
hence, helpful; civil; kind.
Mons.Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very obliging
to a stranger who desires the sight of them. --Addison.
Syn: Civil; complaisant; courteous; kind, -- Obliging,
Kind, Complaisant.
Usage: One is kind who desires to see others happy; one is
complaisant who endeavors to make them so in social
intercourse by attentions calculated to please; one
who is obliging performs some actual service, or has
the disposition to do so. -- O*bli"ging*ly. adv. --
O*bli"ging*ness, n.
Synonyms: accommodating, accommodative, complaisant, compliant, complying, yielding
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