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1.
willing or eager to do favors, offer one's services, etc.; accommodating: The clerk was most obliging.
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Obliging
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example Sentences
- In any case he is remembered as a likabale tyrant, respectfully obliging to cast and crew.
- The central bank issues bills to mop up the liquidity created from buying reserves, which obliging banks hold at low rates.
- Small and innovative firms began obliging them, and big firms increasingly felt forced to follow suit.
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verb (used with object)
1.
to require or constrain, as by law, command, conscience, or force of necessity.
2.
to bind morally or legally, as by a promise or contract.
3.
to place under a debt of gratitude for some benefit, favor, or service: I'm much obliged for the ride.
4.
to put (one) in a debt of gratitude, as by a favor or accommodation: Mr. Weems will oblige us with a song.
5.
to make (an action, policy, etc.) necessary or obligatory: Your carelessness obliges firmness on my part.
verb (used without object)
6.
to be kindly accommodating: I'll do anything within reason to oblige.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English obligen < Old French obligier < Latin obligāre to bind. See obligate
1250–1300; Middle English obligen < Old French obligier < Latin obligāre to bind. See obligate
Related forms
o·blig·ed·ness, noun
o·blig·er, noun
pre·o·blige, verb (used with object), -bliged, -blig·ing.
re·o·blige, verb (used with object), -bliged, -blig·ing.
EXPANDun·o·bliged, adjective
COLLAPSECan be confused: 1. coerce, compel, constrain, force, oblige (see synonym note at the current entry); 2. obligate, oblige.
Synonyms
1. compel, force. 2. obligate. 4. Oblige, accommodate imply making a gracious and welcome gesture of some kind. Oblige emphasizes the idea of conferring a favor or benefit (and often of taking some trouble to do it): to oblige someone with a loan. Accommodate emphasizes doing a service or furnishing a convenience: to accommodate someone with lodgings and meals.
1. compel, force. 2. obligate. 4. Oblige, accommodate imply making a gracious and welcome gesture of some kind. Oblige emphasizes the idea of conferring a favor or benefit (and often of taking some trouble to do it): to oblige someone with a loan. Accommodate emphasizes doing a service or furnishing a convenience: to accommodate someone with lodgings and meals.
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