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Synonyms for obsequious

modified

docile, submissive, cringing, slavish, sycophantic, deferential, servile, subject, enslaved, subordinate, parasitical, stipendiary, toadyish, toadying, fawning, truckling, groveling, spineless, crouching, cringing, mealy-mouthed, subservient, abject, beggarly, sniveling, prostrate, sneaking, oily, bootlicking*, brown-nosing*, kowtowing*, apple-polishing*, flunkyish*, toad-eating*; see also docile, obedient 1.

Antonyms insulting*, proud, haughty.

See obsequious in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II


adjective

Excessively eager to serve or obey:

menial, servile, slavish, subservient. See over

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