Pliant vs Obsequious - What's the difference?
pliant | obsequious | Related terms |
Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax.
(figuratively) Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.
* 2013 , A. J. Langguth, Patriots
(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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As adjectives the difference between pliant and obsequious
is that pliant is capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax while obsequious is obedient, compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.pliant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "[The king] had a pliant prime minister and a general who was telling him what he wanted to hear."
Derived terms
* pliantnessAnagrams
* ----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.
