Obsequious

Adjective

 * 1)  Obedient, compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.
 * 2) Excessively eager to please or to obey all instructions; fawning, subservient.
 * 3) * 1927 — Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, p. 20
 * Translation falls especially short of this conceit which carries the whole flamboyance of the Spanish language. It was intended as an obsequious flattery of the Condesa, and was untrue.

Synonyms

 * fawning, ingratiating, servile, slavish, sycophantic, truckling

Related terms

 * obsequiously
 * obsequiousness

Adverbs for Obsequious
blandly; suavely; unctuously; professionally; exceptionally; deferentially; humbly; ingratiatingly; submissively; cringingly; tactfully; curiously; oddly; strangely; unaccountably; slavishly; servilely; abjectly; significantly; mysteriously; pliantly; inexplicably; pitiably; lamentably; sadly; eagerly; reverentially; ceremoniously; unnecessarily.

Thesaurus
abject, adulatory, ass-kissing, backscratching, beggarly, bland, blandishing, blarneying, bootlicking, brown-nosing, buttery, cajoling, complimentary, courtierly, courtly, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, deferential, fair-spoken, fawning, fine-spoken, flattering, footlicking, fulsome, groveling, gushing, hangdog, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, ingratiating, insincere, insinuating, low, mealy-mouthed, mealymouthed, menial, obeisant, oily, oily-tongued, on bended knee, parasitic, prone, prostrate, servile, slavish, slimy, slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, sniveling, soapy, soft-soaping, sponging, submissive, subservient, sycophantic, sycophantical, sycophantish, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, truckling, unctuous, wheedling

Translations

 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Hungarian: engedelmes


 * Polish: służalczy
 * Russian:


 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Finnish: nöyristelevä, mielistelevä
 * Greek: γλύφτης


 * Hungarian:, szolgalelkű
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,