| Main Entry: | oblige |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | require |
Synonyms: |
bind, coerce, command, compel, constrain, force, impel, make, necessitate, obligate, shotgun |
Antonyms: |
let off |
| Main Entry: | oblige |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do a favor or kindness |
Synonyms: |
accommodate, aid, assist, avail, bend over backward, benefit, come around, contribute, convenience, don't make waves, favor, fill the bill, fit in, go fifty-fifty, gratify, grin and bear it, help, indulge, make a deal, make room, meet halfway, please, profit, put oneself out, roll with it, serve, swim with the tide, take it, toe the mark |
Antonyms: |
be mean |
| Main Entry: | obliging |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, helpful |
Synonyms: |
accommodating, agreeable, amiable, cheerful, civil, complaisant, considerate, cooperative, courteous, eager to please, easy, easygoing, good-humored, good-natured, hospitable, kind, lenient, mild, polite, willing |
Antonyms: |
disobliging, inconsiderate, mean, uncooperative, unfriendly, unhelpful |
| Main Entry: | accommodate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | perform service |
Synonyms: |
afford, aid, arrange, assist, avail, benefit, bow, comfort, convenience, defer, favor, furnish, gratify, help, humor, indulge, oblige, pamper, please, provide, serve, settle, submit, suit, supply, support, sustain, yield |
Antonyms: |
bar, block, frustrate, hinder, impede, limit, obstruct, prevent, stop |
| Main Entry: | accommodating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | willing to help |
Synonyms: |
considerate, cooperative, friendly, generous, handy, helpful, hospitable, kind, neighborly, obliging, on deck, on tap, polite, unselfish, user friendly |
Antonyms: |
alienating, disobliging, estranged |
| Main Entry: | affable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly |
Synonyms: |
amiable, amicable, approachable, benevolent, benign, breezy, civil, clubby, congenial, cordial, courteous, genial, gentle, good-humored, good-natured, gracious, kindly, mild, nice, obliging, pleasant, polite, sociable, urbane, warm |
Antonyms: |
complaining, disdainful, grouchy, grumbling, impolite, miserable, reserved, surly, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | allow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | permit an action |
Synonyms: |
accord, accredit, admit, approve, authorize, be big, be game for, bear, brook, certify, commission, consent, empower, endorse, endure, favor, free up, give a blank check, give carte blanche, give leave, give permission, give the go-ahead, give the green light, go along with, grant permission, hear of, hold with, indulge, let, license, live with, oblige, okay, pass, pass on, put up with, recognize, release, sanction, sit still for, stand, suffer, support, take kindly to, tolerate, warrant |
Antonyms: |
deny, disallow, disapprove, forbid, prohibit, protest, refuse, reject, resist, withstand |
| Main Entry: | amiable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, agreeable |
Synonyms: |
affable, amicable, attractive, benign, breezy, buddy-buddy, charming, cheerful, clubby, complaisant, cool*, copacetic, cordial, cozy, delightful, downright neighborly, easy, engaging, friendly, genial, good-humored, good-natured, gracious, home cooking, kind, kindly, lenient, lovable, mellow, mild, obliging, palsy-walsy, pleasant, pleasing, princely, pussycat, responsive, right, righteous, sociable, sweet-tempered, swell*, tight*, warm, warmhearted, winning |
| Notes: | amicable implies being well disposed; amiable is acting well disposed and amiable is commonly applied only to people - though sometimes it is used for occasions, while amicable is not applied to people at all but to human interactions and their outcomes; amiable first meant 'kind' or 'lovely, lovable' and amicable first applied to things and meant 'pleasant, benign' |
Antonyms: |
crabby, disagreeable, gloomy, hateful, irritable, mean, quarrelsome, rude, surly, testy, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | appear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be published; perform |
Synonyms: |
be created, be developed, be invented, become available, come into being, come into existence, come on, come on stage, come out, enter, make an appearance, oblige, perform, play, play a part, present oneself, take part |
| Main Entry: | attentive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | considerate |
Synonyms: |
accommodating, civil, courteous, devoted, gallant, gracious, kind, obliging, polite, respectful, solicitous, thoughtful |
Antonyms: |
heedless, ignorant, inconsiderate, neglectful, unattentive |