2020-11-17
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด O – oblige & obligate
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง oblige = ‘uh-BLAHYJ’
ออกเสียง obligate – verb = ‘OB-li-geyt’ & adj = ‘OB-li-git’
Dictionary.com
SYNONYM STUDY FOR OBLIGE
Oblige, accommodate imply making a gracious and welcome gesture of some kind.
Oblige emphasizes the idea of conferring a favor or benefit
(and often of taking some trouble to do it):
to oblige someone with a loan.
Accommodate emphasizes doing a service or furnishing a convenience:
to accommodate someone with lodgings and meals.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Choose the Right Synonym for oblige
FORCE, COMPEL, COERCE, CONSTRAIN, OBLIGE
mean to make someone or something yield.
FORCE is the general term and implies the overcoming of resistance by the exertion of strength, power, or duress. forced to flee for their lives
COMPEL typically suggests overcoming of resistance or unwillingness by an irresistible force. compelled to admit my mistake
COERCE suggests overcoming resistance or unwillingness by actual or threatened violence or pressure. coerced into signing over the rights
CONSTRAIN suggests the effect of a force or circumstance that limits freedom of action or choice. constrained by conscience
OBLIGE implies the constraint of necessity, law, or duty. felt obliged to go
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Did You Know?
Oblige shares some similarities with its close relative obligate,
but there are also differences.
Oblige derived via Middle English and Anglo-French from Latin obligare ("to bind to"), a combination of ob- ("to or toward") and ligare ("to bind"), whereas obligate descended directly from the past participle of obligare.
Both oblige and obligate are frequently used in their past participle forms to expressa kind of legal or moral constraint.
Obligated once meant "indebted for a service or favor,"
but today it typically means "required to do something because the law requires it or because it is the right thing to do."
Obliged is now the preferred term for the sense that Southern author Flannery O'Connor used in a 1952 letter: "I would be much obliged if you would send me six copies."
Collins COBUILD English Usage
oblige
If something obliges you to do something,
it makes it necessary for you to do it.
This decree obliges unions to delay strikes.
Security requirements obliged her to stop.
If someone feels that they must do something,
for example in order to be polite
or because they think it is their duty,
you can say that they feel obliged to do it.
He looked at me so blankly that I felt obliged to explain.
Be Careful!
You do not use oblige in impersonal structures.
You do not say, for example, 'He looked at me so blankly that it obliged me to explain'.
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression
Oblige & obligate
In the sense of binding, constraining, and compelling,
these words are synonymous:
“The terms of my mortgage oblige me to make monthly payments.”
“I obligated myself to make the purchase.”
Oblige has the added meaning of “to make grateful or indebted,”
“to gratify the wishes of,”
“to do a service or render a favor”:
“We are obliged for your hospitality.”
“The charter plane obliged us by arriving early.”
Oblige and obligate are not interchangeable
in the sense of gratitude or service,
although a person who has been obliged (“rendered a favor”)
may feel obligated to return that favor.”
“Much obliged,” a colloquial expression, is a kind of thanks;
it acknowledges a favor or kindness
but stops short of a direct “thank you.”
