obliges

The word “obliges” has 2 syllables: o-bliges

It's pronounced as /əˈblaɪdʒɪz/


What is synonym and antonym for obliges?

In the thesaurus, “obliges” has 57 synonyms and 37 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for obliges along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for obliges

  • abets
  • accommodates
  • aids
  • appeases
  • assists
  • attends
  • badgers
  • blackjacks
  • blackmails
  • browbeats
  • bulldozes
  • bullies
  • coddles
  • coerces
  • comforts
  • compels
  • conciliates
  • constrains
  • cows
  • delights
  • dragoons
  • drags
  • drives
  • favors
  • forces
  • gladdens
  • gratifies
  • harasses
  • hectors
  • helps
  • high-pressures
  • hounds
  • humors
  • impels
  • impresses
  • indulges
  • intimidates
  • makes
  • menaces
  • mollifies
  • mollycoddles
  • muscles
  • obligates
  • pacifies
  • pampers
  • placates
  • pleases
  • presses
  • pressures
  • relieves
  • sandbags
  • satisfies
  • shames
  • succors
  • supports
  • terrorizes
  • threatens

Antonyms for obliges

  • allows
  • argues
  • bothers
  • burdens
  • constrains
  • convinces
  • deserts
  • disappoints
  • discommodes
  • disobliges
  • disturbs
  • encumbers
  • fails
  • frustrates
  • hampers
  • hamstrings
  • hinders
  • hobbles
  • holds back
  • impedes
  • incommodes
  • inconveniences
  • induces
  • lets
  • lets down
  • moves
  • obstructs
  • opposes
  • permits
  • persuades
  • restrains
  • sabotages
  • saddles
  • satisfies
  • thwarts
  • troubles
  • weighs

Meanings of obliges

  • verb
    1. To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means.
    2. To do (someone) a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation).
    3. To be indebted to someone.

Example Sentences

  • Sarah's generosity often obliges her to lend a helping hand to those in need.
  • The terms of the contract obliges the company to deliver the goods by the specified date.
  • John's sense of duty obliges him to volunteer at the local shelter every weekend.
  • The etiquette of the event obliges guests to RSVP by the stated deadline.
  • The law obliges employers to provide a safe working environment for their employees.

On this page you'll find 94 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to obliges, such as: abets, accommodates, aids, allows, appeases, argues, assists.

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Related Words

abets

  • activates
  • advances
  • advises
  • aids
  • assists
  • attends
  • backs
  • backstops
  • bails out
  • bears a hand
  • benefits
  • bolsters
  • boosts
  • brews
  • buttresses
  • champions
  • comforts
  • counsels
  • cultivates
  • delivers
  • detonates
  • eases
  • emboldens
  • encourages
  • endorses
  • energizes
  • enflames
  • enlivens
  • excites
  • facilitates
  • favors
  • ferments
  • fires
  • foments
  • forwards
  • fosters
  • furthers
  • galvanizes
  • guides
  • heartens
  • helps
  • incites
  • indorses
  • inflames
  • inspires
  • instigates
  • invigorates
  • launches
  • mentors
  • motivates
  • nourishes
  • nurtures
  • obliges
  • patronizes
  • picks
  • profits
  • promotes
  • provokes
  • quickens
  • raises
  • reenforces
  • reinforces
  • rescues
  • rouses
  • saves
  • serves
  • sets
  • sets in motion
  • sets off
  • sows
  • sponsors
  • stands one in good stead
  • stimulates
  • succors
  • supports
  • sustains
  • triggers
  • vitalizes

accommodates

  • abets
  • acclimates
  • acclimatizes
  • accord
  • accustom
  • accustoms
  • acquaints
  • adapt
  • adapts
  • adjust
  • adjusts
  • afford
  • agree
  • aid
  • aids
  • aligns
  • alines
  • alters
  • appeases
  • arrange
  • arranges
  • arrays
  • assist
  • assists
  • attends
  • attune
  • attunes
  • avail
  • balances
  • barracks
  • bend over backwards
  • bends
  • benefit
  • bestows
  • billets
  • bivouacs
  • blends
  • board
  • boards
  • bow
  • bunks
  • camps
  • carries
  • chambers
  • coddles
  • combines
  • comfort
  • comforts
  • comply
  • compose
  • conciliates
  • conditions
  • conform
  • conforms
  • connects
  • contain
  • contains
  • convenience
  • converts
  • coordinate
  • coordinates
  • corrects
  • correlates
  • correspond
  • customizes
  • defer
  • delights
  • doctors
  • domicile
  • domiciles
  • dovetails
  • edits
  • encamps
  • encloses
  • encompasses
  • enfolds
  • ensconces
  • entertain
  • equalizes
  • equips
  • establishes
  • evens
  • familiarizes
  • fashions
  • favor
  • favors
  • fine-tunes
  • fit
  • fits
  • furnish
  • fuses
  • gears
  • gladdens
  • go by the book
  • go with the flow
  • gratifies
  • gratify
  • habilitates
  • habituates
  • harbor
  • harbors
  • hardens
  • harmonize
  • harmonizes
  • help
  • helps
  • hold
  • holds
  • homes
  • house
  • houses
  • humor
  • humors
  • incloses
  • indulge
  • indulges
  • integrate
  • integrates
  • inures
  • joins
  • keys
  • lodges
  • make consistent
  • makes over
  • matches
  • merges
  • models
  • modifies
  • modify
  • mollifies
  • mollycoddles
  • naturalizes
  • oblige
  • obliges
  • orchestrates
  • orders
  • orientates
  • orients
  • pacifies
  • pairs
  • pamper
  • pampers
  • patterns
  • phases
  • placates
  • play the game
  • please
  • pleases
  • prepares
  • primes
  • proportion
  • proportions
  • provide
  • put up
  • puts
  • puts up
  • quarter
  • quarters
  • readapts
  • readies
  • readjusts
  • recasts
  • receive
  • reclaims
  • reconcile
  • reconciles
  • recycles
  • redesigns
  • redevelops
  • redoes
  • reengineers
  • refashions
  • refigures
  • refits
  • refocuses
  • registers
  • regularizes
  • regulates
  • rehearses
  • reinvents
  • rejiggers
  • relieves
  • remakes
  • remodels
  • rent
  • revamps
  • revises
  • reworks
  • rigs
  • roofs
  • rooms
  • roosts
  • roots
  • satisfies
  • seasons
  • seats
  • secures
  • serve
  • settle
  • settles
  • shape up
  • shapes
  • sheds
  • shelter
  • shelters
  • squares
  • stables
  • standardizes
  • submit
  • succors
  • suit
  • suits
  • supply
  • support
  • supports
  • sustain
  • synchronizes
  • synthesizes
  • tailor
  • tailor-make
  • tailors
  • take in
  • takes
  • takes in
  • tents
  • toughens
  • trains
  • transforms
  • tune
  • tunes
  • unifies
  • unites
  • welcome
  • yield

babies

  • accomplishments
  • achievements
  • acquirements
  • appeases
  • arrivals
  • attainments
  • babes
  • baby
  • bambini
  • bambinos
  • bantlings
  • bawlers
  • beings
  • bellyachers
  • birds
  • bleaters
  • blockbusters
  • bodies
  • bods
  • boys
  • brethren
  • brood
  • brothers
  • celebrities
  • characters
  • cherubim
  • cherubs
  • children
  • cockers
  • coddles
  • complainers
  • completions
  • conquests
  • consummations
  • contents
  • cookies
  • cossets
  • coups
  • crabs
  • creatures
  • crybabies
  • culminations
  • customers
  • dandles
  • deeds
  • delights
  • devils
  • ducks
  • eggs
  • executions
  • faces
  • family
  • feats
  • fellowmen
  • fellows
  • fish
  • fishes
  • foundlings
  • fruitions
  • fulfillments
  • fulfilments
  • fussbudgets
  • fussers
  • fusspots
  • gains
  • girls
  • gladdens
  • gratifies
  • gripers
  • grumblers
  • grumps
  • guys
  • heads
  • hits
  • hominids
  • homos
  • hoydens
  • human beings
  • humanoids
  • humans
  • humors
  • implementations
  • imps
  • individuals
  • indulges
  • infants
  • issue
  • jackpots
  • juveniles
  • kiddies
  • kiddos
  • kids
  • kvetchers
  • kvetches
  • litter
  • little ones
  • lives
  • malcontents
  • megahits
  • men
  • minors
  • miracles
  • moaners
  • mollifies
  • mollycoddles
  • moppets
  • mortals
  • mothers
  • neighbors
  • neonates
  • newborn
  • newborns
  • nippers
  • nurses
  • nurslings
  • obliges
  • offspring
  • pacifies
  • pampers
  • parties
  • people
  • performances
  • personages
  • personalities
  • placates
  • pleases
  • preemies
  • premies
  • progeny
  • realizations
  • satisfies
  • scouts
  • screamers
  • selves
  • skills
  • slobs
  • smashes
  • snivelers
  • somebodies
  • sons of man
  • soothes
  • sorts
  • souls
  • specimens
  • spoils
  • squawkers
  • squirts
  • stiffs
  • successes
  • sucklings
  • tads
  • things
  • tikes
  • toddlers
  • tomboys
  • tots
  • triumphs
  • tykes
  • urchins
  • victories
  • wailers
  • weepers
  • wet-nurses
  • whiners
  • whippersnappers
  • wights
  • winners
  • wins
  • younglings
  • youngsters
  • youths

backs

  • abets
  • adopts
  • advances
  • advises
  • advocates
  • affirms
  • aids
  • assists
  • attends
  • avouches
  • backstops
  • bails out
  • bears a hand
  • benefits
  • bolsters
  • boosts
  • buttresses
  • champions
  • chinks
  • comforts
  • confirms
  • corroborates
  • counsels
  • delivers
  • downfalls
  • eases
  • emboldens
  • embraces
  • encourages
  • endorses
  • espouses
  • establishes
  • facilitates
  • favors
  • forwards
  • fosters
  • furthers
  • goes in for
  • goes to bat for
  • guides
  • hamartias
  • heartens
  • helps
  • holds a brief for
  • indorses
  • jugulars
  • launches
  • mentors
  • nurtures
  • obliges
  • patronizes
  • plugs
  • preaches
  • profits
  • promotes
  • proves
  • rears
  • reenforces
  • reinforces
  • rescues
  • reverses
  • ruins
  • saves
  • seconds
  • serves
  • soft spots
  • sponsors
  • stands one in good stead
  • stands up for
  • sticks up for
  • substantiates
  • succors
  • supports
  • sustains
  • tails
  • talks up
  • tragic flaws
  • underbellies
  • undoings
  • validates
  • verifies

backstops

  • abets
  • advances
  • advises
  • aids
  • assists
  • attends
  • backs
  • bails out
  • bears a hand
  • benefits
  • bolsters
  • boosts
  • buttresses
  • champions
  • comforts
  • counsels
  • delivers
  • eases
  • emboldens
  • encourages
  • endorses
  • facilitates
  • favors
  • forwards
  • fosters
  • furthers
  • guides
  • heartens
  • helps
  • indorses
  • launches
  • mentors
  • nurtures
  • obliges
  • patronizes
  • profits
  • promotes
  • reenforces
  • reinforces
  • rescues
  • saves
  • serves
  • sponsors
  • stands one in good stead
  • succors
  • supports
  • sustains

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