Obliging

Definitions: Obliging

Obliging

Adjective

1. Happy to comply.

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".

Date "obliging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Obliging

Synonyms: complaisant (adj), complying (adj), yielding (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Aid	At one's beck, at one's beck and call; friendly, amicable, favorable, propitious, well-disposed; neighborly; obliging; (benevolent).
Benevolence	Adjective: benevolent; kind, kindly; well-meaning; amiable; obliging, accommodating, indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored.
Courtesy	Fine spoken, fair spoken, soft-spoken; honey-mouthed, honey-tongued; oily, bland; obliging, conciliatory, complaisant, complacent; obsequious.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Obliging

English words defined with "obliging": accommodating ♦ Castle-guard, complaisant ♦ good humouredness, good nature, good naturedness, good-humoredness, good-temperedness. (references)

Specialty definitions using "obliging": Hate ♦ UN Drug Control Conventions. (references)

Etymologies containing "obliging": Oblige. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Obliging bastard. (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?; writing credit: Horace McCoy; James Poe)
Movie/TV Titles	Obliging Young Lady (1942)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	He was always agreeable and obliging, and speaking pleasantly of every body.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		ART intends to promote sustainable competition by obliging telephone operators to develop a cost-based pricing policy that is available to the public. (references)
		The opening of the market also triggered the need of acquiring information obliging Argentine business people to participate in courses, trade shows, and business visits. (references)
		New EU directives will compel the automobile companies to increase the proportion of recyclable materials used in their manufacture � 80 percent of vehicle weight in 2006 rising to 85 percent in 2015. However, even greater concerns exist over proposals obliging the car producers, also from 2006, to take back vehicles at the end of their lives at no or little cost, to the owner. (references)
Economic History	Cyprus	This inefficiency is being addressed by a bill, currently pending before the House, obliging government officials and politicians to disclose personal financial details every year as long as they hold office and for three years thereafter. (references)
Political Economy	SPAIN	It also created an "investment quota," obliging television operators to devote 5 percent of their annual earnings to finance European feature length films and films for European television. (references)
	UKRAINE	Student groups have protested against a Presidential Decree obliging college and university graduates whose studies have been paid for by the government to work in the public sector at government-designated jobs for three years or to repay fully the cost of their education. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Obliging" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 83.81% of the time. "Obliging" is used about 105 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	83.81%	88	35,154
Adjective (general or positive)	16.19%	17	85,106
Total	100.00%	105	N/A

Expression using "obliging": very obliging. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "obliging"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		bereidwillig (kind), bereidvaardig (kind, ready, willing). (various references)

Albanian		që bën nder, i mirësjellshëm, i detyrueshëm (enforceable, inalienable, indispensable, mandatory, necessary, oblatory, obligate, obligatory). (various references)

Arabic		‏كريم (benign, big hearted, cream, custard, decent, generous, gentle, good, good hearted, good natured, gracious, high minded, honorable, honourable, kind, kindly, lavish, liberal, noble, noble-minded, open handed, precious, respectable, valuable, warm-hearted), ‏محب المعروف, ‏خدوم, ‏ظريف (amiable, amicable, amusing, companionable, fine, flowing, gallant, humorist, humorous, humourist, jolly, likeable, nice, pet, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, quaint, stylish, witty, wry). (various references)

Bulgarian		услужлив (accommodating, complaisant, compliant, helpful, serviceable), любезен (accommodating, affable, agreeable, amiable, bland, complaisant, courteous, debonair, fair, fair-spoken, friendly, gentle, gracious, kind, mellow, nice, pleasant, polite, smooth, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, smooth-faced, soft spoken, urbane, well spoken). (various references)

Chinese		迫使 (Oblige, Obliged). (various references)

Czech		ochotný (accommodating, compliant, forthcoming, helpful, ready, ungrudging, willing), laskavý (affable, amiable, benevolent, benign, benignant, caring, charitable, decent, friendly, gentle, good, gracious, kind, kindly, neighborly, open-hearted, soft), úslužný (accommodating, complaisant, helpful). (various references)

Dutch		bereidwillig (kind), bereidvaardig (kind, ready, willing). (various references)

Esperanto		servopreta (ready, willing), komplezema (kind), kompleza (kind). (various references)

Faeroese		fryntligur (affable, friendly, good-natured, kind), blíður (affable, friendly, gentle, good-natured, kind, mild). (various references)

Finnish		palvelevainen (eager to help), avulias (helpful, willing to help). (various references)

French		complaisant, serviable, obligeant, gentil. (various references)

Frisian		attint (attentive, kind). (various references)

German		verbindlich (allying, binding, bland, combinable, compulsory, engaging, obligatory, reliable, urbane, urbanely), diensteifrig (assiduous, officious, zealous). (various references)

Greek		περιποιητικόσ (kind), υποχρεωτικόσ (accommodating, bounden, complaisant, compulsive, incumbent, obligational, obligatory). (various references)

Hebrew		מחיב (affirmative, convicting, mandatory, positive), אדיב (affable, civil, courteous, gallant, genial, gracious, kind, kindly, mannerly, polite, suave, well mannered), גומל טובה. (various references)

Hungarian		udvarias (affable, bland, civil, civil-spoken, complacent, complaisant, courteous, courtly, fair-spoken, mannerly, neighborly, neighbourly, polite, to be gracious to sy, to wrap up his censure in a polite formula, urbane, well-mannered), lekötelező (neighborly, neighbourly). (various references)

Icelandic		reiðubúinn (ready, willing). (various references)

Italian		gentile (affable, bland, charming, civil, courteous, decent, fair, genteel, gentile, gentle, gracious, kind, kindly, likable, mild, nice, polite, tender, thoughtful), cortese (accommodating, affable, bland, complaisant, courteous, friendly, good-natured, gracious, kind, mannerly, neighborly, neighbourly, polite, respectful, urbane, well-mannered), compiacente (accommodating, accommodatingly, complaisant, compliant, easygoing, pleasant), affabile (affable, amiable, condescending, debonair, fair, good humoured, good-humored, gracious, kindly), accomodante (accommodating, accommodative, easygoing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		俯仰 (actions, being obliging, looking up and down), 世話好き (obliging person). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふぎょう (actions, being obliging, looking up and down), せわずき (obliging person). (various references)

Korean		은혜를 베푸. (various references)

Manx		kenjal (benevolent, kindly), keainal (accommodating, civil, civil as person, fond, lenient). (various references)

Pig Latin		obligingay

Polish		usłużny, uczynny (kind). (various references)

Portuguese		obsequioso (accommodating, kind, obsequious), atencioso (attentive, considerate, courteous, deferent, deferential, dutiful, gallant, gracious, kind, neighborly, neighbourly, regardful, respectful). (various references)

Romanian		serviabil (accommodating, helpful, willing), amabil (affable, agreeable, amiable, amiably, bland, considerate, courteous, decent, endearing, fair, favorable, favourable, genial, good natured, good tempered, gracious, kind, kindly, lovable, obligingly, polite, politely, sweet-tempered), îndatoritor (accommodating, obligingly). (various references)

Russian		услужливый (complaisant, pleasing, prompt), обязательный (binding, bound, compulsory, mandatory, obligate, obligatory), любезный (affable, good, gracios, gracious, nice). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uslužan (attentive, complaisant, serviceable), predusetljiv, ljubazan (affable, amiable, amicable, benignant, complaisant, debonair, kind, kind hearted, kindly, likable, likeable, lovable, nice, suave). (various references)

Spanish		obsequioso (fulsome), servicial (accommodating, accommodation, helpful, serviceable), complaciente (accommodating, accommodatingly, compliant, indulgent, pleasant, willing, yielding), atento (alive, appreciative, appreciatory, attentive, careful, courteous, gallant, heedful, helpful, intent, polite, solicitous, thoughtful). (various references)

Swedish		tjänstvillig (helpful), förbindlig (affable, bland, courteous, suave). (various references)

Thai		ที่ทำด้วยความเต็มใจ. (various references)

Turkish		yardımsever (benevolent, caring, charitable, friendly, gracious, helpful, humanist, humanitarian, kind, kindly, public-spirited, well disposed), yardımcı (accessary, accessory, acolyte, adjunct, aid, aide, ancillary, assistant, auxiliary, Band aid, booster, coadjutor, collateral, contributory, cooperative, deputy, donkey, friend, help, helper, helpful, helpmate, helpmeet, henchman, lieutenant, second, sidekick, stand by, sub, subsidiary, suffragan, supporter, supporting, vice-), nazik (affable, attentive, brittle, civil, civilized, civil-spoken, complaisant, considerate, courteous, dainty, debonair, debonaire, decent, delicate, distingue, Douce, eggshell, exquisite, fair, genteel, gentle, gracious, kid glove, kind, mannerly, mild, parliamentary, polished, polite, suave, sweet-natured, tender, ticklish, tickly, touchy, trickish, tricky, urbane, well disposed). (various references)

Ukranian		люб'язний (accommodating, affable, amiable, attentive, complaisant, courteous, dear, good, kind, nice, polite), послужливий (accommodative, complacent, complaisant, officious). (various references)

Vietnamese		sẵn lòng giúp đỡ (accommodating), sốt sắng (devout, racy, zealous), hay giúp người. (various references)

Welsh		ystig (diligent, willing), gwasanaethgar (serviceable), ewyllysgar (willing), cymwynasgar (kind). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	beneficus, benigna, benignas, benigne, benigni, benignos, benignum, benignus, comis, prolixus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "obliging": obligingly, obligingness, obligingnesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "obliging": disobliging. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Obliging" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: obiliging, Ollieing, Oubilin. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "obliging" (pronounced ublī"jing)
3	-j i ng	acknowledging, aging, alleging, arbitraging, arranging, avenging, averaging, besieging, bridging, bulging, challenging, changing, charging, converging, cringing, damaging, discharging, discouraging, disengaging, dislodging, disparaging, diverging, divulging, dodging, dredging, edging, emerging, encouraging, engaging, enlarging, enraging, exchanging, fledging, foraging, forging, fudging, gauging, gouging, grudging, hedging, hemorrhaging, imaging, indulging, infringing, judging, leveraging, lodging, lounging, lunging, managing, merging, messaging, micromanaging, mischarging, mismanaging, mortgaging, nudging, outraging, overcharging, packaging, paging, pillaging, pledging, plunging, presaging, purging, raging, rampaging, ranging, ravaging, rearranging, recharging, repackaging, resurging, rummaging, salvaging, savaging, scavenging, scrounging, shortchanging, splurging, staging, surging, trudging, unchanging, urging, verging, waging.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-g-g-i-i-l-n-o"
	-1 letter: bilging, boiling, globing.
	-2 letters: biggin, gibing, globin, goblin, ogling, oiling.
	-3 letters: bingo, blini, boing, going, lingo.
	-4 letters: blin, boil, bong, glib, glob, gong, ling, lino, lion, loin, long, nogg, noil.
	-5 letters: big, bin, bio, bog, gib, gig, gin, gob, ion, lib, lin, lob, log, nib, nil, nob, nog, obi, oil.
	Words containing the letters "b-g-g-i-i-l-n-o"
	+2 letters: obligating, obligingly.
	+3 letters: disobliging, globalising, globalizing.
	+4 letters: goldbricking, obligingness.
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