6+ Synonyms for Obliging & Similar Words

Definition of obliging

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"

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