Obliging

//əˈblaɪd͡ʒɪŋ//

Synonyms for "obliging" (65 found)

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Closest matches (13)

complaisant accommodating civil considerate friendly polite accommodative affable agreeable amenable amiable

Adjective(2 words)

Strong matches (20)

attentive benevolent benign benignant charitable compliant courteous debonair decent deferential delicate dutiful easy fair generous good humored good-humored good-natured good-tempered

Adjective(1 words)

complaisant

Related words (32)

Related word relations

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5 relation types

Synonyms

6 entries

accommodating civil complaisant considerate friendly polite

derived

3 entries

obligingly obligingness unobliging

form of

1 entries

oblige

related to

5 entries

favour happy imposition obligation ready

similar

2 entries

accommodating accommodative

Translations

22 translations across 13 languages.

Bulgarian

2 entries

любезен adj (Happy and ready to do favours for others)
услужлив adj (Happy and ready to do favours for others)

Esperanto

1 entries

komplezema adj (Happy and ready to do favours for others)

Estonian

2 entries

abivalmis adj (Happy and ready to do favours for others)
vastutulelik adj (Happy and ready to do favours for others)

French

1 entries

serviable adj (Happy and ready to do favours for others)

German

1 entries

verbindlich adj (Happy and ready to do favours for others)

Hungarian

1 entries

segítőkész adj (Happy and ready to do favours for others)

Latin

1 entries

mūnis adj (Happy and ready to do favours for others)

Macedonian

3 entries

пресретлив adj (Happy and ready to do favours for others)
услужлив adj (Happy and ready to do favours for others)
љубезен adj (Happy and ready to do favours for others)

Polish

2 entries

uprzejmy adj (Happy and ready to do favours for others)
usłużny adj (Happy and ready to do favours for others)

Portuguese

2 entries

prestativo adj (Happy and ready to do favours for others)
solícito adj (Happy and ready to do favours for others)

Russian

3 entries

любе́зный adj (Happy and ready to do favours for others)
предупредительный adj (Happy and ready to do favours for others)
услужливый adj (Happy and ready to do favours for others)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

èasgaidh adj (Happy and ready to do favours for others)

Spanish

2 entries

acomedido adj (Happy and ready to do favours for others)
servicial adj (Happy and ready to do favours for others)

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

He's the most obliging fellow I ever met.

Source: tatoeba (10784551)

Many were the finings, and excommunications, and the obligings to do penances, that took place at this time.

Source: wiktionary

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.