obsequious
Adjective Satellite
- attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
- attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner
- "obsequious shop assistants"
Adj
- Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.
- Obedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.
- Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English obsequyous, from Latin obsequiōsus (“complaisant, obsequious”), from obsequium (“compliance”), from obsequor (“comply with, yield to”), from ob (“in the direction of, towards”) + sequor (“follow”) (cf. sequel).
Synonyms
bootlicking, fawning, sycophantic, toadyish, asskissing, asslicky, bowsome, buxom, compliant, groveling, hearsome, hersum, ingratiating, morigerous, obedible, obedient, obsequent, obsequious, oily, oleaginous, schmoozy, self-abasing, servile, slavish, slimy, smarmy, soapy, tall, toadying, toward, truckling, unctuous
Scrabble Score: 21
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