obliging

/ə'blaidʤiɳ/

Thân thiện

The obliging neighbor helped carry the heavy groceries.

Definition

Adjective: Showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others; helpful and accommodating.

Usage

The word "obliging" describes a person's character or a specific helpful action. It is used to praise someone for their readiness to assist, often implying a pleasant and cooperative attitude. - It is typically used before a noun (e.g., an obliging person) or after a linking verb like "be" or "seem" (e.g., He was very obliging). - It has a positive connotation, suggesting kindness and a desire to be useful.

Examples

• The hotel staff were exceptionally obliging, helping us with all our requests.
• She has an obliging nature and is always the first to volunteer.
• "Thank you for being so obliging," he said to the clerk who stayed late to help.

Advanced Usage

• "to be obliging of someone (to do something)": This structure is used to formally thank someone for a specific helpful act.
  • It was very obliging of you to drive me home.

Variants and Related Words

• Oblige (verb): To do as someone asks or desires in order to help or please them.
  • He obliged us with a song.
• Obligation (noun): Something one must do because of a law, promise, or moral duty.
• Obligatorily (adverb): In a way that is required by rule or law.

Synonyms

• Accommodating: Willing to fit in with someone's wishes or needs.
• Helpful: Providing help or assistance.
• Amiable: Having a friendly and pleasant manner.
• Complaisant (formal): Willing to please others or to accept their behavior without protest.

Antonyms

• Uncooperative: Unwilling to help others or work with them.
• Obstructive: Causing deliberate difficulties or delays.
• Unhelpful: Not providing help or assistance.

Idioms and Phrases

• While there are no common idioms using "obliging" as the key word, the concept is central to the idiom:
  • "To go out of one's way (to help someone)": To make a special effort to be helpful.

    • The obliging neighbor went out of her way to water our plants while we were away.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others
   • to close one's eyes like a complaisant husband whose wife has taken a lover
   • the obliging waiter was in no hurry for us to leave

Từ đồng nghĩa

• complaisant