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obliging

adjective

showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others

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Word Facts

Word length
8
Starts with
O
Ends with
G
Contains
BL
Scrabble score
12

How it sounds

Pronunciation

əˈblaɪd͡ʒɪŋ

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Meaning

Definitions

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”

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Example Sentences

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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