obliging (adj.) Copy link Outline 1. cōmis, e (courteous and amiable)2. hūmānus (characterized by kindly human feeling3. făcĭlis, e (easy-tempered)4. commūnis, e (affable, ready to impart of one's own)5. offĭciōsus (full of respect and attention towards) • obliging (adj.): 1. cōmis, e (courteous and amiable): cf. Cic. Bal. 16, 36, comes, benigni, faciles dicuntur; qui erranti comiter monstrant viam: Ter. Join: benignus et lepidus et comis, Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 39; comis et humanus, Cic. Fin. 2, 25, 80. 2. hūmānus (characterized by kindly human feeling: more comprehensive than preced.): an o. disposition, h. ingenium, Ter. Andr. 1, 1, 86: Cic. Join: communis (affable) atque humanus, Cic. Sen. 17, 59; facillimus atque humanissimus, id. Att. 16, 16: cf. supr. (1). Very o., perhumanus, id. Fam. 13, 21. 3. făcĭlis, e (easy-tempered): v. kind, good-natured. 4. commūnis, e (affable, ready to impart of one's own): of so o. a disposition as that ..., tam c. animo esse ut ..., Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 39: Cic.: v. supr. (2). 5. offĭciōsus (full of respect and attention towards): cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 24, 63, Lampsaceni in omnes cives Romanos officiosi (ready to do anything to show respect or oblige): also, id. Fam. 13, 21, extr. (N.B.--Not obsequens, obsequiosus: which = yielding, complaisant.)