About The Word Obsequious
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Obsequious
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What's The Definition Of Obsequious?
[adj] attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner; "obsequious shop assistants"
[adj] attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery Synonyms | Synonyms for Obsequious: bootlicking | fawning | insincere | servile | sycophantic | toadyish Related Terms | Find terms related to Obsequious: abject | adulatory | ass-kissing | backscratching | beggarly | bland | blandishing | blarneying | bootlicking | brown-nosing | buttery | cajoling | complimentary | courtierly | courtly | cowering | crawling | cringing | crouching | deferential | fair-spoken | fawning | fine-spoken | flattering | footlicking | fulsome | groveling | gushing | hangdog | honeyed | honey-mouthed | honey-tongued | ingratiating | insincere | insinuating | low | mealymouthed | mealy-mouthed | menial | obeisant | oily | oily-tongued | on bended knee | parasitic | prone | prostrate | servile | slavish | slimy | slobbery | smarmy | smooth | smooth-spoken | smooth-tongued | sniveling | soapy | soft-soaping | sponging | submissive | subservient | sycophantic | sycophantical | sycophantish | timeserving | toadeating | toadying | toadyish | truckling | unctuous | wheedling See Also | Obsequious In Webster's Dictionary \Ob*se"qui*ous\, a. [L. obsequiosus, fr. obsequium
compliance, fr. obsequi, fr. obsequi: cf. F. obs['e]quieux,
See {Obsequent}, and cf. {Obsequy}.]
1. Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another;
compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.
[Obs.]
His servants weeping, Obsequious to his orders, bear
him hither. --Addison.
2. Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess;
cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite.
There lies ever in ``obsequious'' at the present the
sense of an observance which is overdone, of an
unmanly readiness to fall in with the will of
another. --Trench.
3. [See {Obsequy}.] Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal.
[R.] ``To do obsequious sorrow.'' --Shak.
Syn: Compliant; obedient; servile. See {Yielding}.
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