Thesaurus: obsequious

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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. 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. Etym: [See Obsequy.] Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal. [R.] "To do obsequious sorrow." Shak. Syn. -- Compliant; obedient; servile. See Yielding.
7. Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal. [R.] "To do obsequioussorrow." Shak.
8. j:100 s. attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner