obsequious

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /əbˈsiːkwi.əs/    美 /əbˈsiːkwi.əs/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.
    — 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.
  2. Obedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes. archaic
    — 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;[…]
  3. Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal. obsolete
    — […] the ſuruiuer bound / In filliall obligation for ſome tearme To doe obſequious ſorrowe […]

词形变化

more obsequious comparative most obsequious superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
obsequiate obsequience obsequiosity obsequiously obsequiousness obsequity overobsequious unobsequious

词源

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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