Ingratiating vs Obsequious - What's the difference?
ingratiating | obsequious | Synonyms |
Which ingratiates; which attempts to bring oneself into the favour of another. The implication is often of flattery or insincerity.
(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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Obsequious is a synonym of ingratiating.
As adjectives the difference between ingratiating and obsequious
is that ingratiating is which ingratiates; which attempts to bring oneself into the favour of another. The implication is often of flattery or insincerity while obsequious is obedient, compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.As a verb ingratiating
is present participle of lang=en.ingratiating
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- That was an ingratiating smile.
Verb
(head)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.