Obsequious
[əb'siːkwɪəs] or [əb'sikwɪəs]
Definition
(adj.) attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner; 'obsequious shop assistants' .
Edited by Craig--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.
(a.) Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite.
(a.) Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal.
Editor: Nicolas
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Fawning, sycophantic, cringing, servile, slavish, supple, meanly submissive.
Edited by Elise
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Submissive, servile, deferential, cringing, sycophantic, flattering
ANT:Insubmissive, independent, arrogant, self_assertive, impudent
Typed by Blanche
Definition
adj. compliant to excess: meanly condescending.—adv. Obsē′quiously.—n. Obsē′quiousness.
Checked by Erwin
Examples
- The penniless Colonel became quite obsequious and respectful to the head of his house, and despised the milksop Pitt no longer. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Whenever Mr. Snagsby and his conductors are stationary, the crowd flows round, and from its squalid depths obsequious advice heaves up to Mr. Bucket. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They crowd you --infest you--swarm about you, and sweat and smell offensively, and look sneaking and mean, and obsequious. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- HE, I promise, did not decline the obsequious invitation of the landlords to alight and refresh himself in the neat country towns. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Then, drawing his arm through that of the obsequious Mr. Crushton, Lord Mutanhed walked away. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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