Synonymer

Uttal

  • UttalUK:
    • IPA: /əb.ˈsiː.kwi.əs/
  • UttalUS:
    • IPA: /əb.ˈsiː.kwi.əs/

Ingen översättning hittades i den valda målspråket.

Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. (archaic) Obedient, compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.
  2. Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey all instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.
  3. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal.

Exempel

  • Translation falls especially short of this conceit which carries the whole flamboyance of the Spanish language. It was intended as an obsequious flattery of the Condesa, and was untrue.
  • … the survivor bound In filial obligation for some term To do obsequious sorrow… #* Shakespeare, Richard III, Act I, Scene 2
  • Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament Th’ untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.

Böjningsformer

Komparativmore obsequious
Superlativmost obsequious

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