What is another word for cringing?
295 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ kɹˈɪnd͡ʒɪŋ], [ kɹˈɪndʒɪŋ], [ k_ɹ_ˈɪ_n_dʒ_ɪ_ŋ]Table of Contents
Similar words for cringing:- all (adjective)
- cowardly (adjective)
- fawning (adjective)
- obsequious (adjective)
- servile (adjective)
- subservient (adjective)
- lowly (adverb)
- cowardly (noun)
- cowering (noun)
- fearful (noun)
- submission (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Cringing:
adj.
•all (adjective) •cowardly (adjective) •fawning (adjective)- more kowtowing,
- most adulatory,
- more sycophantic,
- most sycophant,
- most bootlicking,
- more scraping,
- more adulatory,
- most cowering,
- sub missive,
- more sniveling,
- more bowing,
- most kowtowing,
- sub-missive,
- more bootlicking,
- most sycophantic,
- most scraping,
- more cowering,
- more brownnosing,
- more sycophant,
- most sniveling,
- most brownnosing,
- mealy mouthed,
- most bowing.
- at one's beck call,
- in one pocket,
- in one clutches,
- in clutches,
- under ones thumb,
- in ones pocket,
- at one beck call,
- in one power,
- at one mercy,
- most dancing,
- more dancing,
- re-signed,
- under one thumb,
- in ones clutches,
- at ones beck call,
- at mercy,
- a slave to,
- at ones beck and call,
- at ones mercy,
- re signed,
- in ones power,
- at one beck and call,
- at beck call,
- in pocket.
adv.
•lowly (adverb)n.
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- disingenuous,
- sugary,
- hollow,
- insincere,
- artificial,
- false,
- pretentious,
- studied,
- forced,
- affected.
- cringings,
- nonresistances,
- sub missions,
- giving ins,
- sub mission,
- sub-missions,
- passivities,
- sur-renders,
- sur-render,
- un-assertiveness,
- unassertivenesses,
- defeatisms,
- un assertivenesses,
- non-resistances,
- un assertiveness,
- passivisms,
- non resistance,
- sub-mission,
- backing downs,
- submittings,
- un-assertivenesses,
- yieldings,
- non resistances,
- pliabilties,
- sur renders.
Other synonyms:
•Other relevant words:- bid,
- Retracting,
- obsequiousness,
- crouch,
- compliment,
- meekness,
- capitulation,
- Mean-spirited,
- fade,
- fawn,
- Toadyism,
- curbing,
- baseness,
- Huddling,
- tremble,
- brown-nosing,
- Flexing,
- moving,
- sneaky,
- Shrivelling,
- grimacing,
- draw back,
- meanness,
- creep,
- quailing,
- degraded,
- cajolery,
- ingratiating,
- pleasant,
- cower,
- quail at,
- shrink,
- adoration,
- blench,
- shorten,
- crawl,
- surrender,
- servility,
- mean-spiritedness,
- skulking,
- devotedly,
- sniveling,
- resignation,
- get back,
- reducing,
- scraping,
- submissiveness,
- Funereally,
- craven,
- unctuous,
- recede,
- Blenching,
- Toadying,
- tighten,
- flattery,
- condense,
- toadyish,
- bowing,
- deference,
- truckling,
- oily,
- base,
- shy,
- grovel,
- Recoiling,
- timid,
- pliant,
- abjection,
- Mousing,
- prostration,
- bounding,
- parasitic,
- worthlessly,
- sneaking,
- sliminess,
- apple-polishing,
- deferential,
- give way,
- withering,
- Time-serving,
- rein back,
- fall back,
- enslaved,
- reptilian,
- subservience,
- kowtowing,
- squinting,
- contemptible,
- reduce,
- menial,
- respectful,
- Abased,
- entry,
- low,
- arse-licking,
- sycophancy,
- adulation,
- shrinking,
- slavishness,
- acquiescent,
- ignoble,
- Cringingly,
- Dependently,
- beggarly,
- Dough-faced,
- worm-eaten,
- back away,
- back-scratching,
- sycophant,
- Flinching,
- worship,
- unctuousness,
- vile,
- give in,
- conformity,
- abjectly,
- compliant,
- Sponging,
- wince,
- obsequiously,
- Fawningly,
- balking,
- insinuation,
- coward,
- Toad-eating,
- crouching,
- arse-kissing,
- shrivel,
- sordid,
- turn back,
- Servileness,
- Wincing,
- falter,
- boot-licking,
- soapy,
- compliance,
- shy away,
- bootlicking,
- smarminess,
- diminish,
- ricocheting,
- give up,
- flinch,
- ass-kissing,
- crawling,
- ass-licking,
- obeisance,
- pussyfooting,
- mean,
- stooping,
- meanly,
- stand back,
- rebounding,
- blarney,
- Abjectness,
- prostrate,
- Funking,
- presentation,
- cringe,
- slimy,
- Sycophantish,
- totter,
- squinch,
- slavishly,
- Shriveling,
- move back,
- curl up,
- shrink back,
- mealy-mouthed,
- step back,
- Obeisant,
- acquiescence,
- dwindle,
- flattering,
- smarmy,
- abject,
- vileness,
- hangdog,
- supple,
- Cringer,
- vermiculate,
- Sycophantism,
- retiring,
- Snivelling,
- blandishment,
- kicking,
- double up,
- parasitical,
- Slinky,
- contracting,
- set back,
- wheedling,
- parasitism,
- pliantly,
- bouncing,
- Deferring,
- Begging,
- obedience,
- lessen.
Antonyms for Cringing:
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adj.
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Other antonyms:
domineering.
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