a00021110
type | s |
lex_filenum | 00 |
def | showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others |
examples | 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 |
Outgoing links | |
Similar to | accommodating, accommodative |
Derivationally related form | obliging → obligingness |
Derivationally related form | complaisant → complaisance |
Incoming links | |
Similar to | accommodating, accommodative |
Derived from adjective | obligingly → obliging |
Derivationally related form | obligingness → obliging |
Derivationally related form | complaisance → complaisant |
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