See obsequious in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "obsequiosity"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "obsequiously"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "obsequiousness"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "obsequity"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*sekʷ-",
"id": "follow"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "obsequyous"
},
"expansion": "Middle English obsequyous",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "obsequiōsus",
"4": "",
"5": "complaisant, obsequious"
},
"expansion": "Latin obsequiōsus (“complaisant, obsequious”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more obsequious",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most obsequious",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "obsequious (comparative more obsequious, superlative most obsequious)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "85 9 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "85 12 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "85 11 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "88 9 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "68 23 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Armenian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "72 18 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "72 18 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "71 21 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "85 9 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Danish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "79 16 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "72 18 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "80 16 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "73 17 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "82 14 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "75 16 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hebrew translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "72 20 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "85 11 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ido translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "72 18 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Irish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "83 13 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Latin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "67 24 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Macedonian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "72 18 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Maori translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "70 19 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "93 5 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Plautdietsch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "73 18 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "70 21 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "72 18 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Romanian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "84 11 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "66 24 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "87 10 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "76 15 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "72 18 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "67 24 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "86 9 6",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Personality",
"orig": "en:Personality",
"parents": [
"Mind",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘Those Were the Real Conquests’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 259:",
"text": "Personally I felt shy and uncomfortable at this obsequious adoration, and I read the same feeling in the faces of Lord John and Summerlee, but Challenger expanded like a flower in the sun.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1927, Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, page 20:",
"text": "Translation falls especially short of this conceit which carries the whole flamboyance of the Spanish language. It was intended as an obsequious flattery of the Condesa, and was untrue.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 118:",
"text": "[S]he complained pettishly of the heat and the flies and at length of the walk, and reduced Robert to the antics of an obsequious dog.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile."
],
"id": "en-obsequious-en-adj-XGRC-Yde",
"links": [
[
"eager",
"eager"
],
[
"attentive",
"attentive"
],
[
"obey",
"obey"
],
[
"fawning",
"fawning"
],
[
"subservient",
"subservient"
],
[
"servile",
"servile"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "fawning"
},
{
"word": "ingratiating"
},
{
"word": "servile"
},
{
"word": "slavish"
},
{
"word": "sycophantic"
},
{
"word": "truckling"
},
{
"word": "smarmy"
},
{
"word": "asskissing"
},
{
"word": "sycophantic"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "kʻcnoġ",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "քծնող"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "servilen",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "сервилен"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "rabolepen",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "раболепен"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "obsequiós"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "podlézavý"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "servil"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "slesk"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "kruiperig"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "slaafs"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "onderworpen"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "nöyristelevä"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "mielistelevä"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "liehakoiva"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "obséquieux"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "soumis"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "unterwürfig"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "hörig"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "servil"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "kriecherisch"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "devot"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "glýftis",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "γλύφτης"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "alázatos"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "szolgalelkű"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "komplezachema"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "respektemacha"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "spleách"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "obsequiōsus"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "vernīlis"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "úgodliv",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "у́годлив"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "rabólepen",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "рабо́лепен"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "pónizen",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "по́низен"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "whakapatipati"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "servil"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "slesk"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "sleskete"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "dommbleed"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "służalczy"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "obsequioso"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "submisso"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "servil"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "obsecvios"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podobostrástnyj",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "подобостра́стный"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rabolépnyj",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "раболе́пный"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "servilan"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "poslušnički"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "sumiso"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "obsequioso"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "underdånig"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "krypande"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "servilʹnyj",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "сервільний"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "rabolipnyj",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "раболіпний"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "khúm núm"
},
{
"_dis1": "59 39 2",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "xun xoe"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 140:",
"text": "Our ladies were situated as well as it was possible; they had good servants, splendid rooms, obsequious attendants, and had become habituated to the country, so that the loss of the Count was not any thing of moment beyond the pleasure of his society;[…]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Obedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes."
],
"id": "en-obsequious-en-adj-au-1HxIU",
"links": [
[
"Obedient",
"obedient"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) Obedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "obedient"
}
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "hlu",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "հլու"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "hnazand",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "հնազանդ"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "hlu-hnazand",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "հլու-հնազանդ"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "poslušen",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "послушен"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "underdanig"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "onderdanig"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "kuuliainen"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "obéissant"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "obséquieux"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "gehorsam"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "folgsam"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "unterwürfig"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "tsaytán",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "צייתן"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "engedelmes"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "obsequiōsus"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "pókoren",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "по́корен"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "póslušen",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "по́слушен"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "underdanig"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "servil"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "czołobitny"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "służalczy"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "obsequioso"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "obsecvios"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "poslúšnyj",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "послу́шный"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "podložan"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "servilan"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "poslušnički"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "servil"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "apatronado"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "obsequioso"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "inställsam"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "underdånig"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "vâng lời"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 92 1",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "dễ bảo"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:",
"text": "[…] the ſuruiuer bound / In filliall obligation for ſome tearme\n To doe obſequious ſorrowe […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal."
],
"id": "en-obsequious-en-adj-rZjPyJFo",
"links": [
[
"obsequies",
"obsequies"
],
[
"funereal",
"funereal"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/əbˈsiːkwi.əs/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-obsequious.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cc/En-us-obsequious.ogg/En-us-obsequious.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/En-us-obsequious.ogg"
}
],
"word": "obsequious"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sekʷ- (follow)",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Armenian translations",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Danish translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Hebrew translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Ido translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Terms with Latin translations",
"Terms with Macedonian translations",
"Terms with Maori translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
"Terms with Plautdietsch translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Romanian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"Terms with Vietnamese translations",
"en:Personality"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "obsequiosity"
},
{
"word": "obsequiously"
},
{
"word": "obsequiousness"
},
{
"word": "obsequity"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*sekʷ-",
"id": "follow"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "obsequyous"
},
"expansion": "Middle English obsequyous",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "obsequiōsus",
"4": "",
"5": "complaisant, obsequious"
},
"expansion": "Latin obsequiōsus (“complaisant, obsequious”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more obsequious",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most obsequious",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "obsequious (comparative more obsequious, superlative most obsequious)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘Those Were the Real Conquests’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 259:",
"text": "Personally I felt shy and uncomfortable at this obsequious adoration, and I read the same feeling in the faces of Lord John and Summerlee, but Challenger expanded like a flower in the sun.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1927, Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, page 20:",
"text": "Translation falls especially short of this conceit which carries the whole flamboyance of the Spanish language. It was intended as an obsequious flattery of the Condesa, and was untrue.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 118:",
"text": "[S]he complained pettishly of the heat and the flies and at length of the walk, and reduced Robert to the antics of an obsequious dog.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile."
],
"links": [
[
"eager",
"eager"
],
[
"attentive",
"attentive"
],
[
"obey",
"obey"
],
[
"fawning",
"fawning"
],
[
"subservient",
"subservient"
],
[
"servile",
"servile"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "fawning"
},
{
"word": "ingratiating"
},
{
"word": "servile"
},
{
"word": "slavish"
},
{
"word": "sycophantic"
},
{
"word": "truckling"
},
{
"word": "smarmy"
},
{
"word": "asskissing"
},
{
"word": "sycophantic"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 140:",
"text": "Our ladies were situated as well as it was possible; they had good servants, splendid rooms, obsequious attendants, and had become habituated to the country, so that the loss of the Count was not any thing of moment beyond the pleasure of his society;[…]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Obedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes."
],
"links": [
[
"Obedient",
"obedient"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) Obedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "obedient"
}
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:",
"text": "[…] the ſuruiuer bound / In filliall obligation for ſome tearme\n To doe obſequious ſorrowe […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal."
],
"links": [
[
"obsequies",
"obsequies"
],
[
"funereal",
"funereal"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/əbˈsiːkwi.əs/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-obsequious.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cc/En-us-obsequious.ogg/En-us-obsequious.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/En-us-obsequious.ogg"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "hlu",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "հլու"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "hnazand",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "հնազանդ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "hlu-hnazand",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "հլու-հնազանդ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "poslušen",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "послушен"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "underdanig"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "onderdanig"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "kuuliainen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "obéissant"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "obséquieux"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "gehorsam"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "folgsam"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "unterwürfig"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "tsaytán",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "צייתן"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "engedelmes"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "obsequiōsus"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "pókoren",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "по́корен"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "póslušen",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "по́слушен"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "underdanig"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "servil"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "czołobitny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "służalczy"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "obsequioso"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "obsecvios"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "poslúšnyj",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "послу́шный"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "podložan"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "servilan"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "poslušnički"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "servil"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "apatronado"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "obsequioso"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "inställsam"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "underdånig"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "vâng lời"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "obedient, compliant with someone else's orders",
"word": "dễ bảo"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "kʻcnoġ",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "քծնող"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "servilen",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "сервилен"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "rabolepen",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "раболепен"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "obsequiós"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "podlézavý"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "servil"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "slesk"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "kruiperig"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "slaafs"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "onderworpen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "nöyristelevä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "mielistelevä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "liehakoiva"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "obséquieux"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "soumis"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "unterwürfig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "hörig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "servil"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "kriecherisch"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "devot"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "glýftis",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "γλύφτης"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "alázatos"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "szolgalelkű"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "komplezachema"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "respektemacha"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "spleách"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "obsequiōsus"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "vernīlis"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "úgodliv",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "у́годлив"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "rabólepen",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "рабо́лепен"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "pónizen",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "по́низен"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "whakapatipati"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "servil"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "slesk"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "sleskete"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "dommbleed"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "służalczy"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "obsequioso"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "submisso"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "servil"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "obsecvios"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podobostrástnyj",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "подобостра́стный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rabolépnyj",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "раболе́пный"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "servilan"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "poslušnički"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "sumiso"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "obsequioso"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "underdånig"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "krypande"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "servilʹnyj",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "сервільний"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "rabolipnyj",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "раболіпний"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "khúm núm"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "fawning, subservient",
"word": "xun xoe"
}
],
"word": "obsequious"
}
Download raw JSONL data for obsequious meaning in English (15.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.