obsequious.
Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.
Meaning & usage
Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.
Obedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.
Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal.
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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