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obligingadjective willing to do a favoran obliging concierge used her pull to get us reservations at the town's hottest restaurant accommodating, accommodative, friendly, indulgent helpful, solicitousconsiderate, thoughtfulagreeable, amenable, complaisant, graciouslenient, overindulgent, permissive obligingverbpresent participle of obligeto do a service or favor forI would appreciate it greatly if you could oblige me by bringing a dessert to the party accommodating, favoring humoring, indulgingcoddling, mollycoddling, pamperingappeasing, conciliating, mollifying, pacifying, placatingdelighting, gladdening, gratifying, pleasing, satisfyingabetting, aiding, assisting, helping, supportingattending, caring (for), comforting, ministering (to), relieving, succoring disobliging bothering, discommoding, disturbing, incommoding, inconveniencing, troublingburdening, encumbering, saddling, weighingdeserting, disappointing, failing, letting downconstraining, hampering, hamstringing, hindering, hobbling, holding back, impeding, obstructing, restrainingfrustrating, opposing, sabotaging, thwarting to cause (a person) to give in to pressureI know you're in a hurry, but you can't oblige me to drive any faster than the speed limit blackjacking, coercing, compelling, constraining, dragooning, driving, forcing, impelling, impressing, making, muscling, obligating, pressing, pressuring, sandbagging browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, cowing, hectoring, intimidatingblackmailing, high-pressuring, menacing, shaming, terrorizing, threateningdraggingbadgering, harassing, hounding twisting one's arm allowing, letting, permittingarguing, convincing, inducing, moving, persuading, prevailing (on or upon), satisfying, talking (into), winning (over) adj.amiable, good-natured, obliging, complaisant mean having the desire or disposition to please.amiable implies having qualities that make one liked and easy to deal with.an amiable teacher not easily annoyed good-natured implies cheerfulness or helpfulness and sometimes a willingness to be imposed upon.a good-natured girl who was always willing to pitch in obliging stresses a friendly readiness to be helpful.our obliging innkeeper found us a bigger room complaisant often implies passivity or a yielding to others because of weakness.was too complaisant to protest a decision he thought unfair in 1632 |