What is another word for cringing?
Pronunciation:
[ kɹˈɪnd͡ʒɪŋ], [ kɹˈɪndʒɪŋ], [ k_ɹ_ˈɪ_n_dʒ_ɪ_ŋ]
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Similar words for cringing:
- all (adjective)
- cowardly (adjective)
- fawning (adjective)
- obsequious (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- servile (adjective)
- subservient (adjective)
- lowly (adverb)
- cowardly (noun)
- cowering (noun)
- fearful (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- submission (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
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.
- slavish,
- dancing,
- in one's pocket,
- obsequious,
- submissive,
- servile,
- in power,
- adulatory,
- at one's beck and call,
- sycophantic,
- grovelling,
- fawning,
- mealymouthed,
- subservient,
- at one's mercy,
- in one's clutches,
- in one's power,
- groveling,
- under one's thumb,
- under thumb,
- at beck and call.
- 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.
- nonresistance,
- passivism,
- defeatism,
- submissions,
- unassertiveness,
- passivity,
- submission,
- docility,
- docilities,
- bowings,
- subjection,
- pliabilty,
- Non-resistance.
- 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:- deoxidize,
- reverberate,
- inveigle,
- boil down,
- pussyfoot,
- al qaeda,
- flitter,
- stooped,
- slim,
- bowdlerize,
- despicability,
- sleazy,
- broken,
- elastic,
- stealthy,
- horrendous,
- subserviently,
- miserable,
- pocket-sized,
- evanesce,
- yellowed,
- mortify,
- dreary,
- cut back,
- smooth-tongued,
- frisson,
- bound,
- long-sufferance,
- low-pitched,
- cave in,
- slim down,
- humbling,
- execrable,
- timorous,
- remunerated,
- chill,
- cajole,
- stiffen,
- miserly,
- plastic,
- mousey,
- limber,
- fake,
- dilute,
- ricochet,
- contemptibility,
- poor-spirited,
- beseech,
- squint,
- substandard,
- curl,
- subjugation,
- call,
- trim down,
- disappointed,
- fundament,
- win back,
- decrease,
- conjure,
- renounce,
- hero-worship,
- tremor,
- arched,
- castrate,
- postpone,
- passive voice,
- allow,
- poor,
- coggle,
- unpretending,
- relinquish,
- put back,
- scrunch up,
- go,
- conquest,
- abandon,
- conk out,
- feigning,
- dun,
- moo,
- handshake,
- frightful,
- agitate,
- subject area,
- unconsolable,
- faint-hearted,
- come down,
- resistless,
- slicing,
- introduction,
- idolize,
- offer,
- resign,
- bowdlerise,
- fleet,
- forego,
- pretension,
- mild,
- debased,
- national,
- trill,
- wickedness,
- pretending,
- beastliness,
- shelve,
- display,
- ledger entry,
- salaried,
- unsure,
- crushed,
- innuendo,
- play,
- rickety,
- presentment,
- conformism,
- double over,
- invert,
- misfortunate,
- parsimoniousness,
- settle,
- slimed,
- fictitious,
- abridge,
- earthquake,
- cornerstone,
- feeble,
- bidding,
- ingratiation,
- vibration,
- go bad,
- decoct,
- demeaning,
- down,
- debut,
- empty,
- awful,
- home,
- thin out,
- knock back,
- acquiesce,
- lissome,
- recur,
- retreat,
- fasten,
- resile,
- pull away,
- hateful,
- sweet-talk,
- shoddy,
- stirred,
- hold over,
- seesaw,
- glib-tongued,
- regardful,
- revere,
- petty,
- underhand,
- drear,
- devastating,
- pretended,
- accede,
- idolise,
- dwindle away,
- mouselike,
- rock,
- peaceful,
- queasy,
- paddle,
- vacuous,
- frail,
- foiled,
- chase away,
- mingy,
- field,
- waggle,
- dismay,
- traitorously,
- bring down,
- hold back,
- first gear,
- soft soap,
- discontinue,
- ingratiatory,
- blue,
- kick,
- simulation,
- fail,
- dismal,
- retract,
- bloodsucking,
- drop out,
- huddle,
- trembling,
- ground,
- sorry,
- remit,
- earthy,
- low-down,
- instrumental,
- subjugate,
- foot,
- pass,
- entranceway,
- assumed,
- flexibility,
- drab,
- slenderize,
- chagrined,
- guinea pig,
- deoxidise,
- backfire,
- scrape,
- delusive,
- dwindle down,
- piteous,
- release,
- throw in,
- entrance,
- bendable,
- forgo,
- think,
- malleable,
- hapless,
- gloomy,
- buckle under,
- quivering,
- frightening,
- dispirited,
- horrific,
- stem,
- dig,
- put over,
- derelict,
- escape from,
- case,
- excite,
- entree,
- trepid,
- oiliness,
- shaking,
- deficient,
- beat,
- free-base,
- defer,
- hollow out,
- fictive,
- capable,
- backlash,
- groundwork,
- basely,
- light,
- arciform,
- compensated,
- vermiculated,
- flyblown,
- incoming,
- humiliated,
- bow,
- die,
- command,
- resignedly,
- self-examining,
- unreal,
- unostentatious,
- dependent,
- lissom,
- matter,
- ostentatious,
- shakiness,
- average,
- boot,
- demonstration,
- bandy,
- free,
- mouse-colored,
- unavowed,
- pull in one's horns,
- distil,
- chagrin,
- understructure,
- past,
- writhe,
- genuflect,
- thornless,
- excavate,
- preceding,
- lackey,
- waive,
- prorogue,
- mortifying,
- first,
- hunched,
- worried,
- tractile,
- calming,
- chuck up the sponge,
- closeness,
- basal,
- shake up,
- shrivel up,
- sham,
- dawdle,
- passiveness,
- conformance,
- disheartenment,
- basis,
- dictation,
- throw overboard,
- succumb,
- mouse,
- unveiling,
- deplorable,
- faux,
- flat,
- desperation,
- foot soldier,
- table,
- wrestle,
- concentrate,
- dissolute,
- spook,
- malingering,
- open,
- loathsome,
- fall,
- deflated,
- retrovert,
- simulated,
- idolisation,
- accord,
- venerating,
- annihilative,
- frustrated,
- teachable,
- intro,
- greyish brown,
- pouring,
- dreaded,
- dispel,
- faint,
- unmanfully,
- pocket-size,
- entryway,
- adjure,
- pretence,
- lily-livered,
- yellowness,
- double back,
- entail,
- repulsiveness,
- faltering,
- entreat,
- thrill,
- watery,
- bumble,
- scrunch,
- stand,
- backstair,
- dispense with,
- catching,
- thwarted,
- suffering,
- flutter,
- keep one's distance,
- cut,
- despondence,
- signify,
- guise,
- press,
- servilely,
- jaundiced,
- bootlick,
- dire,
- melt off,
- flicker,
- subsidiary,
- namby-pamby,
- lay off,
- root,
- bailiwick,
- base of operations,
- tighten up,
- check,
- prone,
- zippy,
- expurgate,
- unmanful,
- give out,
- complaisance,
- burbly,
- bounce,
- lithesome,
- ossification,
- stand for,
- respect,
- reticent,
- recidivate,
- strained,
- gentle,
- languish,
- drop off,
- rebound,
- sir noel pierce coward,
- retire,
- break,
- crawler,
- humiliate,
- meanspirited,
- dirty,
- first appearance,
- drive away,
- twist,
- waxy,
- tensile,
- belittle,
- conquering,
- artful,
- lousiness,
- reduction,
- unhopeful,
- subservientness,
- pass off,
- subside,
- washy,
- put on,
- nucleotide,
- subject field,
- holler,
- inconsolable,
- contrived,
- loathsomeness,
- entering,
- spirited,
- throb,
- root word,
- imply,
- profligate,
- mistaken,
- depicted object,
- reverse,
- hyponym,
- pulsate,
- yield,
- ductile,
- praiseful,
- drop by the wayside,
- devalued,
- keep down,
- weirdy,
- faithlessly,
- break down,
- spiritless,
- subduedness,
- underling,
- shrinkage,
- immoral,
- blue funk,
- riotous,
- found,
- run-down,
- negativeness,
- double,
- bandy-legged,
- decrepit,
- laudatory,
- paying,
- weirdo,
- resort,
- nauseous,
- humbled,
- stoop,
- spare,
- dread,
- squat,
- downhearted,
- foundation,
- disconsolateness,
- arced,
- treasonably,
- parsimony,
- scandalmongering,
- blate,
- electronegativity,
- melt,
- chapfallen,
- floor,
- quit,
- unnatural,
- round-backed,
- humbly,
- self-satisfied,
- hesitation,
- unction,
- bend,
- discerning,
- bowlegged,
- lithe,
- alkali,
- repress,
- milk shake,
- abbreviate,
- niggardliness,
- stop,
- make-believe,
- untitled,
- stipendiary magistrate,
- head-shrinker,
- cautious,
- collapse,
- wheedle,
- latria,
- fall in,
- underhanded,
- depressed,
- handclasp,
- imitation,
- dodder,
- wishy-washy,
- squalid,
- reptile,
- accordance,
- saltation,
- trim back,
- apprehend,
- pitiful,
- disappearance,
- arching,
- drive off,
- kerb,
- drive out,
- untrue,
- revert,
- return,
- pathetic,
- put off,
- keep one's eyes off,
- junior-grade,
- abidance,
- minor,
- chicken,
- stir,
- study,
- run off,
- slice,
- subordinate word,
- arrest,
- yellowish,
- implemental,
- lower-ranking,
- discomfited,
- pedestal,
- fulsome,
- flea-bitten,
- relapse,
- quash,
- repercussion,
- burbling,
- founder,
- wriggle,
- tightfistedness,
- subdue,
- grayish brown,
- unimportance,
- take a hop,
- nastily,
- digest,
- draw in,
- cut down,
- seism,
- giving up,
- content,
- ingress,
- deliver,
- radix,
- infirm,
- despicableness,
- buttery,
- pacificism,
- obscureness,
- waddle,
- weakly,
- conformation,
- pull back,
- shingle,
- shamefaced,
- constrained,
- bow down,
- baseborn,
- fall by the wayside,
- yellow-bellied,
- theme,
- recreant,
- debauched,
- slick,
- dreadful,
- degenerate,
- subaltern,
- trim,
- stutter,
- contain,
- throw off,
- degradation,
- pacifism,
- part with,
- plasticity,
- stumble,
- psychiatrist,
- squinched,
- saponaceous,
- creaky,
- temblor,
- dance,
- tightness,
- scurvy,
- sinuous,
- scurvily,
- substructure,
- dark,
- peppy,
- cede,
- treacherously,
- submit,
- oleaginousness,
- teeter,
- lag,
- off-key,
- tender,
- terpsichore,
- tractableness,
- fall behind,
- pretext,
- yielding,
- leechlike,
- dissipated,
- stilted,
- worm,
- arcuate,
- balky,
- discipline,
- sway,
- fallible,
- shake off,
- respectfulness,
- moved,
- shiver,
- mean value,
- handshaking,
- dingy,
- remunerative,
- pat,
- wither,
- xanthous,
- ease up,
- regress,
- secondary,
- weirdie,
- unaccented,
- white-livered,
- cease,
- toddle,
- low-toned,
- minify,
- imperfect,
- toady,
- field of study,
- palaver,
- fast,
- annihilating,
- worthless,
- bag,
- excusatory,
- introspective,
- bowleg,
- retrogress,
- surreptitious,
- radical,
- backstairs,
- withdraw,
- fearsome,
- front crawl,
- hole,
- invite,
- dissembling,
- noisome,
- ugliness,
- hunker down,
- nauseating,
- hokey,
- offensive,
- knuckle under,
- give,
- bastardly,
- topic,
- low-level,
- obligingness,
- palpitate,
- congratulate,
- unmanlike,
- tight,
- ass-kisser,
- ugly,
- palpitation,
- chopfallen,
- have in mind,
- sapless,
- sebaceous,
- sensationalistic,
- sweet talk,
- low-spirited,
- vermicular,
- scratching,
- shamed,
- coax,
- deferent,
- pitiable,
- intend,
- suck up,
- scummy,
- issue,
- al qaida,
- fulsomeness,
- stay away,
- coaxing,
- touched,
- pale,
- gutless,
- vacate,
- subscript,
- low gear,
- sneak,
- tingle,
- throw in the towel,
- unworthy,
- launching,
- waver,
- woeful,
- snivel,
- enduring,
- stimulate,
- minginess,
- kick back,
- direful,
- self-effacing,
- ungentle,
- inactive,
- down in the mouth,
- atrophy,
- stammer,
- mortified,
- poltroon,
- sordidness,
- terrible,
- grim,
- wiggle,
- depleted,
- get even,
- understated,
- think of,
- heartsickness,
- constrain,
- foreshorten,
- bouncy,
- didder,
- blow over,
- wish,
- milkshake,
- truckle,
- invertebrate,
- crawfish,
- seedy,
- small-scale,
- biddable,
- abasement,
- chickenhearted,
- flexible,
- tame,
- blanch,
- lapse,
- accounting entry,
- wag,
- forfeit,
- idolization,
- laden,
- scale down,
- judder,
- compliancy,
- sour,
- pliable,
- small,
- establish,
- crooked,
- backtrack,
- nefariousness,
- depression,
- coy,
- libertine,
- distill,
- compensable,
- keep one's hands off,
- infrastructure,
- seamy,
- sickening,
- back out,
- abase,
- contract,
- thin,
- curb,
- round-shouldered,
- crawfish out,
- core out,
- scratch,
- move over,
- spring,
- parlay.
- 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.
How to use "Cringing" in context?
Most people cringe when they see something they don't want to see, like when they see someone fall down. This reflex is created by a hormone called when something disgusts or shocks the person.
Homophones for Cringing:
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- Synonyms:
- enlivener, reformist, refresher, renovator, restorer, Modernizer, Regenerator, Reviver, recharger.