Meaning and example
attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
The passage used "obsequious" to mean attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.861 places obsequious in the uncommon range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 80.9% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 80.9%
a tapering point
- Known by
- 80.6%
a natural inclination
- Known by
- 80.5%
powerfully persuasive
- Known by
- 80.5%
repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- Known by
- 80.4%
a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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