Obsequious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Obedient, compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.
  • adj. Excessively eager to please or to obey all instructions; fawning, subservient.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.
  • adj. Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner
  • adj. attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  • Equivalent
    servile    insincere   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    obedient    yielding    servile    compliant    devoted    cringing    fawning    funereal    abject    truckling   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    deferential    servile    submissive    abject    respectful    apologetic    fawn    attentive    reverential    humble