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/icons/point.icon SUBSERVIENT, SERVILE, SLAVISH, OBSEQUIOUS mean showing or characterized by extreme compliance or abject obedience.
SUBSERVIENT implies the cringing manner of one very conscious of a subordinate position.
e.g. domestic help was expected to be properly subservient
SERVILE suggests the mean or fawning behavior of a slave.
e.g. a political boss and his entourage of servile hangers-on
SLAVISH suggests abject or debased servility.
e.g. the slavish status of migrant farm workers
OBSEQUIOUS implies fawning or sycophantic compliance and exaggerated deference of manner.
e.g. waiters who are obsequious in the presence of celebrities
adjective
obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree:
｟かたく･けなして｠ 【相手に】おもねるような, こびへつらった «to»
e.g. they were served by obsequious waiters.
DERIVATIVES
obsequiously |əbˈsēkwēəslē| adverb
obsequiousness |əbˈsēkwēəsnəs| noun
ORIGIN
late 15th century (not depreciatory in sense in early use): from Latin obsequiosus, from obsequium ‘compliancy’, from obsequi ‘follow, comply with’.