Usually means: Eager to please or flatter.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word obsequious:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. obsequious: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. obsequious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. obsequious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. obsequious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. obsequious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Obsequious, obsequious: Wordnik
  7. obsequious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. obsequious: Wiktionary
  9. obsequious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. obsequious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. obsequious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Obsequious, obsequious: Dictionary.com
  13. obsequious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. obsequious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Obsequious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Obsequious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. obsequious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. obsequious: Rhymezone
  19. obsequious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. obsequious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. obsequious: Free Dictionary
  22. obsequious: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. obsequious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. obsequious: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. obsequious: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obsequious: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. obsequious: A Word A Day
  2. obsequious: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obsequious: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.
adjective:  (archaic) Obedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.
adjective:  (obsolete) Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal.

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