disoblige
disoblige verb: to be unwilling to oblige; to disappoint, to inconvenience, not to cooperate.
Verb
disoblige (third-person singular simple present disobliges, present participle disobliging, simple past and past participle disobliged)
- to be unwilling to oblige; to disappoint, to inconvenience, not to cooperate.
- Sorry to disoblige everybody; I know you were depending on me to bring a good weather forecast for our fête, but it is going to rain.
- But Miss Frances married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a Lieutenant of Marines, without education, fortune, or connexions, did it very thoroughly.1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 2
- To offend by an act of unkindness or incivility.
disoblige meaning in Tamil and Kannada
disoblige in Tamil
- உதவாதே, வேண்டுதலை மறு
disoblige in Kannada
- ಒದಗದಿರು
Antonyms of disoblige
Forms of disoblige
| third-person singular present | disobliges |
|---|---|
| present participle | disobliging |
| past participle | disobliged |
| past | disobliged |
Origin of disoblige
From Middle French desobliger. By surface analysis, dis- + oblige.
Words formed from disoblige
Questions about disoblige
- What does disoblige mean?
- Disoblige means to be unwilling to oblige; to disappoint, to inconvenience, not to cooperate.
- What is disoblige in Tamil?
- Disoblige in Tamil is உதவாதே, வேண்டுதலை மறு. See Disoblige meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is disoblige?
- Disoblige is a verb.
- What is the past tense of disoblige?
- The past tense of disoblige is disobliged.
Words near disoblige in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: disoblige (page history and authors); disoblige (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disoblige (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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