OBEISANT Synonyms: 103 Similar and Opposite Words

obeisant

adjective

Definition of obeisant

as in obsequious

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Adjective

As a friend — her friends all know that Bobbi was singular — ever thoughtful, never obsequious, sometimes obstinate, always honest.

— Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 6 July 2026
To cede all of that ground to the executive, and to do so in such an obsequious way, is shameful.

— KEN BURNS, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026

Definition of obsequious

Adjective

Unfortunately, Trump takes servile flattery as his due.

— Robert Kagan, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
Of course, all of this convenient acquiescence will sound familiar in the United States, where our own Congress and Department of Justice have been nothing if not servile to a brazenly corrupt executive.

— Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 4 June 2026

Definition of servile

Adjective

The club’s members, including an industrialist and his expatriate niece, the president and his pampered wife, and a slew of Chinese tourists, engage in a complex dance with the doting and subservient staff.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 July 2026
That curiosity now extends to white wine, long subservient to red here but increasingly the focus of real ambition.

— Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026

Definition of subservient

Adjective

Because slavish inferiority did not befit his spirit.

— Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
While many of the building’s original features—including the soaring stucco ceilings decorated with a sun motif - have been preserved, the look and feel are more 21st-century magpie than slavish historical reverence.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2026

Definition of slavish

Adjective

Even with docile scoring conditions that Saturday, Royal Birkdale yielded plenty of statistical superlatives for the championship.

— Justin Ray, New York Times, 18 July 2026
In April, Hulu began airing the series The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale that depicts teen girls trained to be docile homemakers.

— Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026

Definition of docile

Adjective

Leaving it out is how a compliant organization becomes a noncompliant one without shipping a single deliberate change.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts SES AI produces National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) compliant battery cells for aerospace, defense, robotics, and advanced mobility applications.

— Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of compliant

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