Associations to the word «Obliging»

Wiktionary

OBLIGING, adjective. Happy and ready to do favours for others.
OBLIGING, verb. Present participle of oblige

Dictionary definition

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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats