O-blī'ġing, a.

Having the disposition to oblige or do favors, or actually conferring them; hence, civil; complaisant; kind.

Mons. Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very obliging to a stranger that desires the sight of them. Addison.

Synonyms— 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. We may be kind without being obtrusive, obliging without being officious, and complaisant without being servile.

Go on, obliging creatures! make me see All that disgraced my betters met in me. Pope.

By the kind gods, ’tis most ignobly done, To pluck me by the beard. Shak.

Scarce to wise Peters complaisant enough, And something said of Chartres much too rough. Pope.