disoblige[verb]Synonyms: inconvenience, discommode, disconvenience, incommode, put about, put out, trouble
Antonyms: oblige
Contrasted words: accommodate, convenience, favor
[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
disoblige verb trans. [dɪsǝ'blʌɪdʒ] L16.[Old & mod. French désobliger from Proto-Romance, from DIS- 2 + Latin obligare OBLIGE.]1. Release, set free, esp. from obligation or duty.
L16-L17.b. Detach from an allegiance.
M-L17.2. Refuse to consider the wishes or convenience of; offend, affront.
M17.3. Incommode, trouble.
obsolete exc.
dial. M17.■ S. Judd I..hope my presence, Madam, will not disoblige you. ■ disobligement noun (long
rare)
(a) =
DISOBLIGATION 1, 2;
(b) =
DISOBLIGATION 3:
M17. ■ disobliging ppl adjective (a) not disposed to consider another's wishes, unaccommodating;
(b) inconvenient:
M17. ■ disobligingly adverb M17. ■ disobligingness noun M17. [TahlilGaran] English Dictionary ▲