01 a. Putting under obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors; hence, helpful; civil; kind.
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Putting under obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors; hence, helpful; civil; kind.“Mons. Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very obliging to a stranger who desires the sight of them.” — Addison.
Syn.
Civil; complaisant; courteous; kind, -- Obliging, Kind, Complaisant.
One is kind who desires to see others happy; one is complaisant who endeavors to make them so in social intercourse by attentions calculated to please; one who is obliging performs some actual service, or has the disposition to do so.