Definitions for: Obsequious


[adj] attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner; "obsequious shop assistants"
[adj] attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: bootlicking, fawning, insincere, servile, sycophantic, toadyish

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