obligating

The word “obligating” has 4 syllables: ob-li-ga-ting

It's pronounced as /ˈɑblɪˌɡeɪtɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for obligating?

In the thesaurus, “obligating” has 31 synonyms and 9 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for obligating

  • badgering
  • blackjacking
  • blackmailing
  • browbeating
  • bulldozing
  • bullying
  • coercing
  • compelling
  • constraining
  • cowing
  • dragging
  • dragooning
  • driving
  • forcing
  • harassing
  • hectoring
  • high-pressuring
  • hounding
  • impelling
  • impressing
  • intimidating
  • making
  • menacing
  • muscling
  • obliging
  • pressing
  • pressuring
  • sandbagging
  • shaming
  • terrorizing
  • threatening

Antonyms for obligating

  • allowing
  • arguing
  • convincing
  • inducing
  • letting
  • moving
  • permitting
  • persuading
  • satisfying

Meanings of obligating

  • verb
    1. To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.
    2. To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige.
    3. To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.

Example Sentences

  • She was obligating herself to attend the weekly meetings despite her busy schedule.
  • The contract clearly stated the terms, obligating both parties to fulfill their respective responsibilities.
  • By signing the agreement, they were obligating themselves to complete the project within the specified timeframe.
  • His consistent actions were silently obligating him to take on a leadership role within the team.
  • The company policy was aimed at obligating employees to adhere strictly to ethical standards.

On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to obligating, such as: allowing, arguing, badgering, blackjacking, blackmailing, browbeating, bulldozing.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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obliging

  • abetting
  • accommodating
  • accommodative
  • agreeable
  • aiding
  • amenable
  • amiable
  • appeasing
  • assisting
  • attending
  • badgering
  • blackjacking
  • blackmailing
  • browbeating
  • bulldozing
  • bullying
  • cheerful
  • civil
  • coddling
  • coercing
  • comforting
  • compelling
  • complaisant
  • conciliating
  • considerate
  • constraining
  • cooperative
  • courteous
  • cowing
  • delighting
  • dragging
  • dragooning
  • driving
  • eager to please
  • easy
  • easygoing
  • favoring
  • forcing
  • friendly
  • gladdening
  • good-humored
  • good-natured
  • gracious
  • gratifying
  • harassing
  • hectoring
  • helpful
  • helping
  • high-pressuring
  • hospitable
  • hounding
  • humoring
  • impelling
  • impressing
  • indulgent
  • indulging
  • intimidating
  • kind
  • lenient
  • making
  • menacing
  • mild
  • mollifying
  • mollycoddling
  • muscling
  • obligating
  • overindulgent
  • pacifying
  • pampering
  • permissive
  • placating
  • pleasing
  • polite
  • pressing
  • pressuring
  • relieving
  • sandbagging
  • satisfying
  • shaming
  • solicitous
  • succoring
  • supporting
  • terrorizing
  • thoughtful
  • threatening
  • willing

sandbagging

  • badgering
  • blackjacking
  • blackmailing
  • browbeating
  • bulldozing
  • bullying
  • coercing
  • compelling
  • constraining
  • cowing
  • dragging
  • dragooning
  • driving
  • forcing
  • harassing
  • hectoring
  • high-pressuring
  • hounding
  • impelling
  • impressing
  • intimidating
  • making
  • menacing
  • muscling
  • obligating
  • obliging
  • pressing
  • pressuring
  • shaming
  • terrorizing
  • threatening

making

impelling

  • a must
  • abetting
  • absolute
  • activating
  • actuating
  • affective
  • aggressive
  • agitative
  • alive
  • alluring
  • animating
  • appealing
  • arousing
  • arresting
  • arrow
  • assertive
  • astir
  • astonishing
  • at work
  • awakening
  • badgering
  • blackjacking
  • blackmailing
  • bomb
  • bracing
  • breathless
  • breathtaking
  • browbeating
  • bulldozing
  • bullet
  • bullying
  • burning
  • bustling
  • called-for
  • capital
  • categoric
  • categorical
  • chief
  • clamant
  • clamorous
  • clear
  • coercing
  • coercion
  • cogent
  • commoving
  • compelling
  • compulsion
  • conclusive
  • conspicuous
  • constraining
  • convictive
  • convincing
  • cowing
  • credible
  • critical
  • crucial
  • crying
  • dangerous
  • dart
  • decided
  • demanded
  • demanding
  • dragging
  • dragooning
  • dramatic
  • driving
  • duress
  • dynamic
  • effective
  • effectual
  • efficacious
  • efficient
  • electrifying
  • eloquent
  • emotional
  • emotive
  • emphatic
  • energetic
  • enflaming
  • enticing
  • essential
  • exciting
  • exertive
  • exhilarant
  • exigent
  • expressive
  • eye-popping
  • facund
  • far-out
  • felt in gut
  • fermenting
  • fine
  • flashy
  • flowing
  • fomenting
  • forceful
  • forcible
  • forcing
  • foremost
  • full-blooded
  • functioning
  • galvanizing
  • goad
  • going
  • grabbed by
  • gripping
  • groovy
  • hair-raising
  • hairy
  • hang-up
  • harassing
  • hasty
  • heady
  • heartbreaking
  • heartrending
  • heavy
  • hectic
  • hectoring
  • high-pressuring
  • hounding
  • hurry-up
  • immediate
  • imperative
  • important
  • importunate
  • impressing
  • impressive
  • impulsion
  • in force
  • in play
  • in process
  • inciting
  • indispensable
  • inducing
  • inflaming
  • influential
  • insistent
  • inspirational
  • inspiring
  • instant
  • instigating
  • interesting
  • intimidating
  • intoxicating
  • intriguing
  • inveigling
  • leading
  • life and death
  • lively
  • logical
  • luring
  • making
  • marked
  • meaningful
  • melodramatic
  • menacing
  • mind-bending
  • mind-blowing
  • missile
  • mobile
  • momentous
  • motivating
  • motive
  • movable
  • moving
  • muscling
  • muscular
  • neat
  • necessary
  • necessity
  • no-no
  • noticeable
  • obligating
  • obliging
  • operating
  • operative
  • overpowering
  • overwhelming
  • paramount
  • persuasive
  • plain
  • plausible
  • poignant
  • pointed
  • potent
  • powerful
  • pressing
  • pressure
  • pressuring
  • primary
  • principal
  • progressive
  • propelling
  • provocative
  • provoking
  • pushing
  • quickening
  • racy
  • raising
  • rallying
  • rapid
  • repression
  • required
  • resounding
  • restless
  • restraint
  • rip-roaring
  • rocket
  • rolling
  • rousing
  • running
  • rushing
  • rust
  • rustling
  • salient
  • sandbagging
  • seductive
  • sensational
  • serious
  • setting off
  • shaft
  • shaming
  • shell
  • shifting
  • shot
  • showy
  • significant
  • simmering
  • slick
  • smooth
  • soft sell
  • sound
  • spear
  • speeding
  • speedy
  • spine-tingling
  • spring
  • spur
  • stimulating
  • stimulative
  • stirring
  • streaming
  • strenuous
  • striking
  • stringent
  • strong
  • stunning
  • suppression
  • swarming
  • swaying
  • telling
  • terrorizing
  • threatening
  • thrilling
  • titillating
  • top-priority
  • torpedo
  • touch and go
  • touching
  • touchy
  • traveling
  • triggering
  • tripping
  • turned on by
  • turning
  • unambiguous
  • unctuous
  • unequivocal
  • valid
  • vehement
  • vigorous
  • violence
  • violent
  • vital
  • walking
  • wanted
  • weighty
  • wheedling
  • wild
  • winning
  • working
  • zestful

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