disobliging

1. 1.

   intentionally unaccommodating

   “the action was not offensive to him but proved somewhat disobliging”

   Synonymsuncooperative

   Similarunaccommodating

Questions about disobliging

What does disobliging mean?

disobliging means "intentionally unaccommodating".

How many syllables are in disobliging?

disobliging has 4 syllables: di-so-bli-ging. The stress falls on "so".

What is another word for disobliging?

Close synonyms include uncooperative. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is disobliging a common word?

disobliging is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.