Word Meanings - OBLIGING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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, --

Additional info about word: OBLIGING

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. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OBLIGING)

• Accommodating
• Kind
• unselfish
• obliging
• polite
• yielding
• conciliatory
• Agreeable
• Obliging
• pleasant
• accommodating
• grateful
• acceptable
• welcome
• suitable
• consistent
• consonant
• amiable
• gratifying
• pleasing
• good-natured
• complaisant
• Civil
• Well-mannered
• political
• courteous
• well-bred
• affable
• urbane
• respectful
• Polite
• Elegant
• refined
• wellbred
• civil
• courtly
• polished
• genteel
• accomplished

Related words: (words related to OBLIGING)

• URBANE
  Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.
• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• POLITENESS
  1. High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance. Evelyn. 2. The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions. Syn. -- Courtesy; good breeding; refinement; urbanity;
• POLITE
  1. Smooth; polished. Rays of light falling on a polite surface. Sir I. Newton. 2. Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil. He marries, bows at court, and grows polite. Pope. 3. Characterized
• OBLIGABLE
  Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy. The main difference between people seems to be, that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely, -- is obligable; and another is not. Emerson.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• OBLIGER
  One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
• AMIABLENESS
  The quality of being amiable; amiability.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• ACCOMPLISHED
  1. Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact. 2. Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain. They . . . show themselves accomplished
• CONCILIATORY
  Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating. The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse to the conciliatory policy. Prescott.
• AMIABLE
  friend, fr. amare to love. The meaning has been influenced by F. aimable, L. amabilis lovable, fr. amare to love. Cf. Amicable, 1. Lovable; lovely; pleasing. So amiable a prospect. Sir T. Herbert. 2. Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious;
• OBLIGEMENT
  Obligation. I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton.
• YIELDABLE
  Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• YIELDANCE
  1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
• PLEASER
  One who pleases or gratifies.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• POLITICALLY
  1. In a political manner. 2. Politicly; artfully. Knolles.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• PREFINE
  To limit beforehand. Knolles.
• INGRATEFUL
  1. Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury. 2. Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive. He gives . . . no ingrateful food. Milton. -- In"grate`ful*ly, adv. -- In"grate`ful*ness,
• INCIVIL
  Uncivil; rude. Shak.
• ANTHROPOLITE
  A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• METROPOLITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall.
• UNPOLITE
  Not polite; impolite; rude. -- Un`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Un`po*lite"ness, n.
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.