Obsequious Definition

ŏb-sēkwē-əs, əb-
adjective
Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
American Heritage
Showing too great a willingness to serve or obey; fawning.
Webster's New World
Compliant; dutiful.
Webster's New World

(archaic) Obedient, compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.

Wiktionary

Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey all instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.

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Origin of Obsequious

  • Middle English from Latin obsequiōsus from obsequium compliance from obsequī to comply ob- to ob– sequī to follow sekw-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin obsequiōsus (“complaisant, obsequious"), from obsequium (“compliance"), from obsequor (“comply with, yield to"), from ob (“in the direction of, towards") + sequor (“follow") (see sequel).

    From Wiktionary

Obsequious Sentence Examples

  • The little girl had obsequious manners.

  • He was the creature of every passing mood or whim, incapable of cool and steady judgment or of the slightest self-control - an incalculable weathercock, blindly obsequious to every blast of passion.

  • He succeeded, however, in reversing his father's obsequious policy towards Russia.

  • The rest of the Jews rated the Sadducees as atheists, just as the rest of the Greeks rated the Epicureans as atheists and discerned, as Plutarch said, the sardonic grin behind the mask of their obsequious devotion to the ceremonies at which the force of public opinion compelled their attendance.

  • Another characteristic of the de la Gardie government was its gross corruption, which made Sweden the obsequious hireling of that foreign power which had the longest purse.

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