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obsequious |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.] 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}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: obsequious adj 1: attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery [syn: {bootlicking}, {fawning}, {sycophantic}, {toadyish}] 2: attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner; "obsequious shop assistants"
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