OBLIGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does obliged mean? 

• OBLIGED (adjective)
  The adjective OBLIGED has 1 sense:

1. under a moral obligation to do something

  Familiarity information: OBLIGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBLIGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Under a moral obligation to do something

Synonyms:

duty-bound; obliged

Similar:

obligated (caused by law or conscience to follow a certain course)

 Context examples 

“Much obliged to you, Peggotty,” returned my mother, in a cheerful voice, “I have had a VERY pleasant evening.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

For once in your life you would be obliged to own yourself mistaken.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I was obliged to recall him to a theme which was of necessity one of close and anxious interest to me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Going? well, I'm much obliged to you, and I hope you'll come again.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The former left them soon after tea to fulfill her evening engagements; and Elinor was obliged to assist in making a whist table for the others.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Catherine, supposing some uneasiness on Captain Tilney's account, could only express her concern by silent attention, obliged her to be seated, rubbed her temples with lavender-water, and hung over her with affectionate solicitude.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Anne was obliged to turn away, to rise, to walk to a distant table, and, leaning there in pretended employment, try to subdue the feelings this picture excited.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She was beyond their reach; and if at last obliged to yield—no matter—it was all misery now.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

As I could not pass through the town, I was obliged to cross the lake in a boat to arrive at Plainpalais.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Words were insufficient for the elevation of his feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)