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obsequious.

Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.

10 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/əbˈsiːkwi.əs/UK, US
  1. Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.

  2. Obedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.

    archaic
  3. Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal.

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

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).

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