Obsequious vs Deferential - What's the difference?
obsequious | deferential | Synonyms |
(archaic) Obedient, compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.
Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey all instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.
* 1927 , (Thornton Wilder), (The Bridge of San Luis Rey) , p. 20
(obsolete) Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal.
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respectful and considerate; showing deference
(anatomy) of, or relating to the vas deferens
based on deference; based on the doctrine, ideology, or wishes of others rather than one's own conclusions
Obsequious is a synonym of deferential.
As adjectives the difference between obsequious and deferential
is that obsequious is (archaic) obedient, compliant with someone else's orders or wishes while deferential is respectful and considerate; showing deference.obsequious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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…
- Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament
Th’ untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.