Usually means: Respectfully or deferentially obedient, submissive.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. obeisant: Merriam-Webster
  2. obeisant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. obeisant: Collins English Dictionary
  4. obeisant: Wordnik
  5. obeisant: Wiktionary
  6. Obeisant, obeisant: Dictionary.com
  7. Obeisant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. obeisant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Obeisant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. obeisant: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Obeisant: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obeisant: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Courteously deferential and respectful.

Similar:
deferential, regardful, suppliant, discreet, genuflective, unctuous, solicitous, circumspect, observant, patronizing, more...

Opposite:
defiant, insolent, contumacious

Types:
servile, fawning, ingratiating, obsequious, sycophantic, more...

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Similar:
deferential, regardful, suppliant, discreet, genuflective, unctuous, solicitous, circumspect, observant, patronizing, more...

Opposite:
defiant, insolent, contumacious

Types:
servile, fawning, ingratiating, obsequious, sycophantic, more...



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