adj
Meaning 1
Happy and ready to do favours for others.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
obliging
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/əˈblaɪd͡ʒɪŋ/
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rhymes with -aɪdʒɪŋ
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CMU ARPABET: AH0 B L AY1 JH IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The imposition of an obligation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
present participle and gerund of oblige
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: complaisant
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: услужлив (uslužliv) — Happy and ready to do favours for others
- Bulgarian: любезен (ljubezen) — Happy and ready to do favours for others
- Esperanto: komplezema — Happy and ready to do favours for others
- Estonian: vastutulelik — Happy and ready to do favours for others
- Estonian: abivalmis — Happy and ready to do favours for others
- French: serviable — Happy and ready to do favours for others
- German: verbindlich — Happy and ready to do favours for others
- Hungarian: segítőkész — Happy and ready to do favours for others
- Latin: mūnis — Happy and ready to do favours for others
- Macedonian: љубезен (ljubezen) — Happy and ready to do favours for others
- Macedonian: услужлив (uslužliv) — Happy and ready to do favours for others
- Macedonian: пресретлив (presretliv) — Happy and ready to do favours for others
- Polish: uprzejmy — Happy and ready to do favours for others
- Polish: usłużny — Happy and ready to do favours for others
- Portuguese: prestativo — Happy and ready to do favours for others
- Portuguese: solícito — Happy and ready to do favours for others
- Russian: любе́зный (ljubéznyj) — Happy and ready to do favours for others
- Russian: услужливый (uslužlivyj) — Happy and ready to do favours for others
- Russian: предупредительный (predupreditelʹnyj) — Happy and ready to do favours for others
- Scottish Gaelic: èasgaidh — Happy and ready to do favours for others
- Spanish: acomedido — Happy and ready to do favours for others
- Spanish: servicial — Happy and ready to do favours for others