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Obliging vs Mindful - What's the difference?

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Obliging is a related term of mindful.


As adjectives the difference between obliging and mindful

is that obliging is happy and ready to do favours for others while mindful is being aware ((of) something); attentive, heedful.

As a verb obliging

is .

obliging

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Happy and ready to do favours for others.
  • Synonyms

    * accommodating, willing

    Derived terms

    * obligingness

    Verb

    (head)
  • mindful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * mindefull, mindfull (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Being aware ((of) something); attentive, heedful.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=December 10 , author=Marc Higginson , title=Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Alex McLeish, perhaps mindful of the flak he has been taking from sections of the Villa support for a perceived negative style of play, handed starts to wingers Charles N'Zogbia and Albrighton.}}
  • (obsolete) Inclined (to do something).
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.5:
  • *:These noble warriors, mindefull to pursew / The last daies purpose of their vowed fight, / Them selves thereto preparde in order dew […].
  • Antonyms

    * mindless * seat-of-the-pants

    Derived terms

    * mindfulness