Category:Obliging

O*bli"ging, a.

Defn: 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.