Thesaurus
obsequious
Synonyms and Antonyms of obsequious
- She's constantly followed by obsequious assistants who will do anything she tells them to.
fawning, kowtowing, obeisant, servile, slavish, subordinate, subservient
amenable, biddable, compliant, conformable, docile, law-abiding, obedient, submissive, tractable
acquiescent, agreeable, amiable, duteous, dutiful, obliging, placable
decorous, disciplined, mannerly, orderly
constrained, curbed, inhibited, repressed, restrained
controllable, disciplinable, governable, handleable, manageable, tame, teachable, tractable, trainable
dogged, hardheaded, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, peevish, pigheaded, self-willed, stubborn, unyielding
uncontrollable, unmanageable, wild
balky, defiant, perverse, resistant
bad, disorderly, errant, misbehaving, mischievous, naughty
disrespectful, ill-mannered, impolite, impudent, insolent, rude
balky, contrary, contumacious, defiant, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, intractable, noncompliant, obstreperous, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, unamenable, ungovernable, unruly, untoward, wayward, willful (or wilful)
Synonym Discussion of obsequious
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- domestic help was expected to be properly subservient
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- a political boss and his entourage of servile hangers-on
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- the slavish status of migrant farm workers
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- waiters who are obsequious in the presence of celebrities
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