obsequious
C2CEFR level
82/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Fawning and excessively eager to please.
The obsequious waiter hovered until it became irritating.
Business adjective
Excessively eager to please or obey a superior.
His obsequious deference to the board masked a ruthless ambition.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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