Promptly obedient or submissive to the will of another; ever ready to obey, serve, or assist; compliant; dutiful.Hence Servilely complaisant; showing a mean readiness to fall in with the will of another; cringing; fawning; sycophantic.Synonyms Servile, slavish, sycophantic. See obedience.Funereal; pertaining to funeral rites.Absorbed in grief, as a mourner at a funeral.