obsequious

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more obsequious

Superlative

most obsequious

1.
Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.
Đồng nghĩa: fawning, ingratiating, servile, slavish, sycophantic, truckling, smarmy, asskissing, asslicky, fawning, greasy, groveling, ingratiating, obsequious, oily, oleaginous, schmoozy, self-abasing, slimy, soapy, sucky, sycophantic, toadyish, toadying, truckling, unctuous
2.
(archaic)Obedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.
Đồng nghĩa: bowsome, buxom, compliant, hearsome, morigerous, obedible, obedient, obsequent, obsequious, tall, toward
3.
(obsolete)Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal.

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Đồng nghĩa

fawningingratiatingservile slavish sycophantic truckling smarmyasskissingasslickygreasygrovelingoily oleaginousschmoozyself-abasingslimy soapysuckytoadyish toadying

Cùng gốc / liên quan

obsequiateoverobsequious unobsequious obsequience obsequiosity obsequiously obsequiousness obsequity

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro 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).