obsequious

Speech parts

1. obsequious - Adjective

2. obsequious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.

Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite.

Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

compliant obedient fawning servile sycophantic bootlicking toadyish meek flexible yielding humble parasitic amenable respectful submissive
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Antonyms

august bow-wow aggressive animated adverse ambitious
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Phrases with the word

be obsequious obsequious person be obsequious towards obsequious toady be obsequious to

Examples

obsequious shop assistants Source: Internet

If Gaetz was obsequious towards the president before his gutsy Iran vote, he’ll just have to be twice as obsequious afterward in order to return to Trump’s good graces. Source: Internet

Mr. Bennet and Elizabeth are much amused by his obsequious veneration of his employer, the noble Lady Catherine de Bourgh, as well as by his self-important and pedantic nature. Source: Internet

Desert Island Discs, the weekly programme that has now deteriorated into a kind of weekly pseuds’ corner, presented by the obsequious Kirsty Young, is not what it used to be. Source: Internet

Part and parcel with this drive toward spelling uniformity was an almost obsequious devotion to Latin. Source: Internet

There’s the obsequious Nick, who can’t deal with power around him, his benumbed lovers, smarmy politicians, and coke dealers. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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