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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: obsequious (0.00811 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to obsequious.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: obsequious
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”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Obsequious
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.]
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His servants weeping,
Obsequious to his orders, bear him hither.
--Addison.
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2. Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess;
cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite.
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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.
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3. [See
Obsequy.] Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal.
[R.]
“To do obsequious sorrow.” --Shak.
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Syn: Compliant; obedient; servile. See
Yielding.
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