прилагательное 1) подобострастный, раболепный Например: to be obsequious to somebody — угодничать, заискивать перед кем-либо His obsequious manner was beginning to irritate me. — Его подобострастная манера начинала меня раздражать. Синоним(ы): abject, menial, servile, slavish, subservient, sycophantic Антоним(ы): contumelious, impudent, overbearing 2) [устаревшее] исполнительный, послушный Синоним(ы): obedient, dutiful
adjective Etymology: Middle English, compliant, from Latin obsequiosus, from obsequium compliance, from obsequi to comply, from ob- toward + sequi to follow — more at ob-, sue marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness Synonyms: see subservient • obsequiously adverb • obsequiousness noun