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

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  1. a. Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.
  2. a. Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite.
  3. a. Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal.
  4. adj. attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  5. adj. attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner
  6. j:100 s. attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner