approval If you describe someone as obliging, you think that they are willing and eager to be helpful. He is an extremely pleasant and obliging man. = accommodating + obligingly oblig·ing·ly He swung round and strode towards the door. Benedict obligingly held it open. willing and eager to help
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"