Obliging

Word OBLIGING
Character 8
Hyphenation o bli ging
Pronunciations /əˈblaɪd͡ʒɪŋ/

Definitions and meanings of "Obliging"

What do we mean by obliging?

Ready to do favors for others; accommodating. adjective

Having a disposition to oblige or confer favors; ready to do a good turn or to be of service: as, an obliging neighbor; hence, characteristic of one who is ready to do a favor; accommodating; kind; complaisant: as, an obliging disposition.

Synonyms Friendly. See polite.

Putting under obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors; hence, helpful; civil; kind. adjective

Happy and ready to do favours for others. adjective

Present participle of oblige. verb

Showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others adjective

To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means.

To do (someone) a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation).

To be indebted to someone.

Obligation. An obligation is something you may not like or even enjoy doing but you do it out of respect or some profound sense of duty. Don't ever tell your girlfriend that you're attending her 21st birthday party out of obligation. She's not American born and English is her 2nd language; she doesn't fully understand its definition. She has absolutely zero respect and will never have any sense of duty. She will fight with you for days over the true definition of the word, implying that somehow, duty has a "negative" connotation. As she verbally castrates you, you will be constantly reminded of how pussy-whipped you are and how she abuses your fear of being alone to her advantage. Your relationship with the man eating bitch, no matter how gorgeous she is, will strongly parallel repeatedly running head first into a brick wall and loving it. Even after you’ve accepted defeat, admitted your wrong doings, and apologized for them, she will continue to berate you over the fact that she is never wrong. Four years of college… wasted out of fucking obligation. Obligation. Urban Dictionary

Someone bound by ones values and word to oblige by providing service and favors Word component and origin : (a) Word components of obligent = oblige + -ent (suffix equivalent to -ant, appearing in nouns of Latin origin) (b) Origin of oblige (verb) is from Latin obligare (ob + ligare) meaning "to bind, bind up, bandage." In modern English means "to put under obligation." (c) The suffix -ant produces nouns from verbs. It has the general sense “characterized by or serving in the capacity of” that named by the stem, e.g. consultant = consult + ant = one serving to consult. Urban Dictionary

A short-hand version of obligatory. It can be used to show agreement or as a stand alone exclamation. Urban Dictionary

To agree to do something. To do something you feel obligated to do. To do something to pay a debt or putting someone in your debt. Urban Dictionary

After taking a filthy poop, wiping your butt and accidently getting some poop on the hand. Then, taking your hand and smelling it because you feel obligated to. You know it is going to smell like sh!t but you just are obligated. Urban Dictionary

Make (someone) legally or morally bound to do something. Urban Dictionary

Verb. When one is doing things out of obligation rather than wishes or desires. Urban Dictionary

To have to do something, regardless if you want to Urban Dictionary

An incorrect synonym for "obliged", which appears in some dictionaries, but none of the good ones. Urban Dictionary

A euphemism reffering to sexual intercourse, according to a Ugandan news host. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Obliging

The word "obliging" in example sentences

I answered this worthy man, and told him my sister's reserve, as to her husband's treatment of her: he praised her prudence, and added, "your father had two motives in obliging her to marry the Count; he was disappointed in both, for he was no stranger to her situation before he died." ❋ Eliza (1793)

He was what they called "obliging" -- a man who instinctively did the thing which he saw would help another, no matter how trivial or homely it was. ❋ Various (N/A)

Love such as his, in a man like himself, must with perseverance secure a return, and at no great distance; and he had so much delight in the idea of obliging her to love him in a very short time, that her not loving him now was scarcely regretted. ❋ Unknown (2004)

"Oh, all right, I'll shoot him then!" called obliging Stubby, whistling for the dog -- while all morning long the woman grieved over having sent a helpless little dog away with that perfectly ❋ Susan Glaspell (1915)

Yet it is ungrateful to be grave, when practically you are good and just about the letters, and generous too sometimes, and I could not bear the idea of obliging you to write to me, even once ... when .... ❋ Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 (1898)

Such an idealized person (the authorized judge of conscience) must be one who knows the heart; for the tribunal is set up in the inward part of man; at the same time he must also be all-obliging, that is, must be or be conceived as a person in respect of whom all duties are to be regarded as his commands; since conscience is the inward judge of all free actions. ❋ Immanuel Kant (1764)

If at that stage, Portugal has improved its finances and the healing in the financial sector has progressed enough, the idea of obliging the private Greek debt holders to participate in the cleaning up of the Greek mess might be too attractive for cash-strapped EMU governments. ❋ KBC Bank (2010)

They all support the idea of obliging utilities to generate a certain proportion of their output-perhaps 15\% by 2020-from renewable sources, for example, and want such a rule included in a cap-and-trade bill. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Here you have a liberal willingly assigning responsibility to any and all parties responsible for 9/11 which includes liberals, Democrats, whoever… and yet you say “all” liberals can “never” take criticism and imply/say I am some kind of obliging terrorist supporter. ❋ Unknown (2006)

For other misdemeanors he inflicted upon them various kinds of disgrace; such as obliging them to stand all day before the praetorium, sometimes in their tunics only, and without their belts, sometimes to carry poles ten feet long, or sods of turf. ❋ Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (N/A)

As they walked thither, he told her that some one -- a turnkey, or some one -- would have to be present at the interview; that such was always the rule in the case of condemned prisoners; but that if this third person was "obliging," he would keep out of earshot. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

Using their answers, and my editing skills - it was only a matter of minutes before they were "obliging" my requests. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As the second horniest animated corpse in theaters this season, the Spirit is irresistible to every woman he meets, and since most women he meets look like Eva Mendes or Scarlet Johansson, he's understandably obliging to their advances. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Jane: "That's not what obligation means, look it up in [a dictionary]. Try [dictionary.com]. Dick: "Actually, urbandictionary has a pretty good definition you [omnipotent] whore." ❋ Malecasenumber2298402348 (2007)

My [dentist] is [obligent] to me for having created his website. I am obligent to create your [social media] plan for you ❋ Shoumo (2015)

Friend: Hey [are you] going to the [Abbey] this [weekend]? Me: Oh, oblig! ❋ Kurb09 (2017)

"I can't believe you got [Henry] to [lend] you his car!" "He [owes] me money so he had to oblige." ❋ Bluerondo (2019)

"man i [walked] out of [the bathroom] and had the [obligation]." ❋ The Padawan (2008)

"[doctors] are obliged [by law] to keep patients alive while there is a chance of [recovery]" ❋ Priestess Of Aries (2019)

I'm [obligating] today, taking mom to her [doctor's appointment], though I know she can drive herself, and then have to meet with [Jeanine], because I haven't seen her in months and she is going through a divorce. John is obligating, off with some buddies he hasn't seen in two years, just because they asked him to go; he didn't even want to go! ❋ Missmissy (2016)

That hot little [blonde] has an [obligation] to [please daddy], whenever wherever ❋ Maddy’s Daddy (2018)

John: "I feel obligated to go to this dinner with my [In-laws]" Peter: "I think you mean "obliged"?" John: "Whatever, it's the same thing" Peter: "[No it's not], idiot, I'm obliged to [punch you in the face] for thinking that." ❋ JujitsuGeorge (2014)

"[Do you] [perform] the [natural obligation]?" ❋ Janiktheinformer (2022)

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