Definition of Obsequious

Obsequious

1. Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.
2. Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite.
3. Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal.