What is another word for obliging?

Pronunciation: [əblˈa͡ɪd͡ʒɪŋ] (IPA)

When describing someone who is willing to help, the word "obliging" is often used. However, there are many synonyms that can be used to convey the same meaning. Some alternate words include helpful, accommodating, obliging, considerate, generous, cooperative, and kind. When looking for a word that expresses a more specific type of willingness to help, there are many more options to choose from, such as courteous, chivalrous, gallant, hospitable, obligate, and benevolent. Whichever word you choose, remember that a person who is always willing to help is a valuable asset to any community, workplace, or personal relationship.

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What are the opposite words for obliging?

Obliging refers to being helpful or willing to do something for others. The antonyms of obliging are unfriendly, unhelpful, uncooperative, and stubborn. Unfriendly refers to being inhospitable or hostile towards others. Unhelpful refers to lacking assistance or support. Uncooperative refers to being unyielding or resisting collaboration with others. Lastly, stubborn refers to being unreasonably inflexible or resistant to change. When someone is obliging, they are willing to lend a helping hand or show kindness towards others. However, when someone is unfriendly, unhelpful, uncooperative, or stubborn, they are more likely to be distant or unwilling to assist others.

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Usage examples for Obliging

He is a good workman, and of a civil, obliging disposition.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
"Sir," said I, "you are very obliging.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
She was a widow, and Mr. Leask had been rather obliging her by allowing her to remain where she was for some years, when she was not able to pay any rent.
"Second Shetland Truck System Report"
William Guthrie

Famous quotes with Obliging

  • What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
    Karl Kraus
  • Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.
    George Eliot
  • In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.
    Sir George Savile
  • Deep learning will make you acceptable to the learned; but it is only an obliging and easy behaviour, and entertaining conversation, that will make you agreeable to all companies.
    James Burgh
  • Classic art was like a king who has the right to govern, punish, reward, and choose his favorites from an aristocracy, obliging them to adopt conventional rules as to manners, morals, and modes of speech. The new art tries to imitate nature in its unconsciousness, its moral indifference.
    Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé

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