Difference between Servile and Obsequious

SERVILE vs OBSEQUIOUS: NOUN

An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.
In grammar, a servile element, whether sound or character; a non-radical element.
A slave; a menial.

Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
Of or relating to servitude or forced labor.
Of or suitable to a slave or servant.
Abjectly submissive; slavish.
Submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior
Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning
Pertaining to or involving slaves
Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune.
Of or pertaining to a slave
Submissive or slavish
Relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants
Not belonging to the original root.

In grammar, of secondary or subordinate character; not independent, but answering an orthographic purpose.
Obedient; subject.
Resembling a slave or dependent; characteristic or worthy of a slave; slavish; hence, mean-spirited; cringing; base; lacking independence.
Of or pertaining to slaves or servants.
Consisting or made up of slaves; belonging to the class of slaves; held in subjection; dependent.
Pertaining or appropriate to a slave or dependent; fit or proper for a slave.

Synonyms Servile, slavish, sycophantic. See obedience.
Hence Servilely complaisant; showing a mean readiness to fall in with the will of another; cringing; fawning; sycophantic.
Promptly obedient or submissive to the will of another; ever ready to obey, serve, or assist; compliant; dutiful.
Absorbed in grief, as a mourner at a funeral.
Funereal; pertaining to funeral rites.

Docile, Obedient, Sycophantic, Easement, Bonded, Enslavement, Menial, Enslaved, Servitude, Slave, Slavelike, Slavish, Submissive, Obsequious, Subservient

Dutiful, Pusillanimous, Haughty, Unctuous, Solicitous, Pompous, Deferential, Supercilious, Smarmy, Toadyish, Insincere, Bootlicking, Fawning, Servile, Sycophantic

Docile, Obedient, Sycophantic, Easement, Bonded, Enslavement, Menial, Enslaved, Servitude, Slave, Slavelike, Slavish, Submissive, Obsequious, Subservient

Dutiful, Pusillanimous, Haughty, Unctuous, Solicitous, Pompous, Deferential, Supercilious, Smarmy, Toadyish, Insincere, Bootlicking, Fawning, Servile, Sycophantic

Down with the pathetic, sarcastic, arrogant, cynical, servile, progressive, left, rigth.
Rulers are concerned with more important and less servile tasks.
Man of Sin does not merely yield to servile flatterers.
Scott Hambrick: Those things display excellence in a servile art.
Even the servile serfs were not in fact slaves.
In the most submissive, servile manner, testify their subjection.
Slave resistance to their servile status took many forms.
Before their superiors such men are revoltingly servile.
What precedent is there for such servile bootlicking?
To behave in a cowardly or servile manner.

No time for obsequious curtsies, just no nonsense, polite service.
But the adrenaline masked the pain, one obsequious.
I am very obsequious with this ED etiology and would like to fumigate CIALIS could find.
Donne and Hall abused men in classes: priests were worldly, lawyers greedy, courtiers obsequious, etc.
Not stubborn nor obstinate; of a yielding disposition in all indifferent things; obsequious, docile.
Shivaji, who when under house arrest in Agra, wrote obsequious letters to Aurangzeb.
Independent and footloose, these British subjects wereless obsequious than native blacks toward whites.
Talking in class does not automatically make you obsequious or pompous.
Convention requires authors to be polite and obsequious in response.
Keep your tone courteous, but avoid being obsequious.