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.] [1913 Webster] His servants weeping, Obsequious to his orders, bear him hither. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 2. Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. [See Obsequy.] Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal. [R.] “To do obsequious sorrow.” --Shak. [1913 Webster] Syn: Compliant; obedient; servile. See Yielding. [1913 Webster]