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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
obsequious
adj 1: attempting to win favor from influential people by
flattery [syn: bootlicking, fawning, obsequious,
sycophantic, toadyish]
2: attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner; "obsequious
shop assistants"
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Obsequious \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.]
[1913 Webster]
His servants weeping,
Obsequious to his orders, bear him hither.
--Addison.
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2. Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess;
cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite.
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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.
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3. [See Obsequy.] Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal.
[R.] "To do obsequious sorrow." --Shak.
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Syn: Compliant; obedient; servile. See Yielding.
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Thesaurus Results for obsequious:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, ingratiating, insincere, insinuating, low, mealy-mouthed, mealymouthed, 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 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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