Obliging Definition & Meaning
obliging
- adjective
- 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"
Words that rhyme with obliging
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- What does obliging mean?
- 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"
- What part of speech is obliging?
- Obliging is an adjective.