What is another word for fawning?
440 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ fˈɔːnɪŋ], [ fˈɔːnɪŋ], [ f_ˈɔː_n_ɪ_ŋ]Table of Contents
Similar words for fawning:- abject (adjective)
- complimentary (adjective)
- fawning (adjective)
- flattering (adjective)
- fulsome (adjective)
- menial (adjective)
- obsequious (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- servile (adjective)
- subservient (adjective)
- adulation (noun)
- blandishment (noun)
- blarney (noun)
- bootlicking (noun)
- fawning (noun)
- flattery (noun)
- humility (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- fawn (verb)
- flattering (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Fawning:
adj.
•abject (adjective)- dejected,
- pitiable,
- outcast,
- miserable,
- fawning,
- base,
- contemptible,
- low,
- worthless,
- wretched,
- hangdog,
- dishonorable,
- degraded,
- forlorn,
- deplorable,
- humiliated.
- approbatory,
- honoring,
- courtly,
- congratulatory,
- laudatory,
- Commendatory,
- appreciative,
- polite,
- Celebrating,
- respectful,
- approving,
- unctuous.
- humble,
- prostrate,
- compliant,
- parasitic,
- kowtowing,
- cowering,
- sniveling,
- bowing,
- sycophant,
- brownnosing,
- scraping,
- mealy-mouthed,
- spineless,
- submissive,
- crawling.
- extravagant,
- coarse,
- glib,
- oleaginous,
- saccharine,
- smarmy,
- oily,
- suave,
- mealymouthed,
- cloying,
- overdone,
- magniloquent,
- grandiloquent,
- nauseating,
- inordinate,
- buttery,
- bombastic,
- immoderate,
- smooth,
- sanctimonious,
- Canting,
- offensive,
- hypocritical.
- demeaning,
- common,
- sorry,
- boring,
- unskilled,
- vile,
- routine,
- ignoble,
- mean,
- ignominious,
- degrading,
- baseborn,
- humdrum,
- dull.
- servile,
- praiseful,
- Encomiastical,
- at one's mercy,
- slavish,
- approbative,
- menial,
- at beck and call,
- under thumb,
- eulogistic,
- abject,
- flattering,
- dancing,
- panegyrical,
- adulatory,
- cringing,
- fulsome,
- subservient,
- Obeisant,
- at one's beck and call,
- under one's thumb,
- honeyed,
- sycophantic,
- obsequious,
- fair-spoken,
- groveling,
- well-wishing,
- in power,
- highly favorable,
- in one's clutches,
- with highest recommendation,
- in one's pocket,
- with high praise,
- grovelling,
- Plauditory,
- in one's power,
- encomiastic.
- at mercy,
- at ones beck and call,
- in one pocket,
- under one thumb,
- in ones pocket,
- a slave to,
- in clutches,
- at one beck and call,
- more cowering,
- in ones clutches,
- re-signed,
- in one clutches,
- at ones beck call,
- in ones power,
- at beck call,
- most dancing,
- most cowering,
- re signed,
- in pocket,
- more dancing,
- under ones thumb,
- at ones mercy,
- in one power,
- at one's beck call,
- at one beck call,
- at one mercy.
n.
•adulation (noun) •blandishment (noun) •blarney (noun)- exaggeration,
- cajolery,
- soft words,
- overpraise,
- wheedling,
- sweet talk,
- eyewashes,
- baloney,
- compliments,
- ingratiation,
- a line,
- coaxing,
- Inveiglement,
- honey,
- incense,
- eyewash,
- ingratiations,
- overpraises,
- Cajoleries,
- soft soap.
- encomium,
- gratification,
- mush,
- pretty speech,
- plaudits,
- approbation,
- jive,
- eulogy,
- tribute,
- palaver,
- jives,
- laud,
- hokum,
- servility,
- blarney,
- Toadyism,
- unctuousness,
- Puffery,
- snow job,
- truckling,
- soft-soap,
- honeyed words,
- obsequiousness,
- gallantry,
- flummery,
- fulsomeness.
- timorousness,
- shyness,
- sheepishness,
- self-abnegation,
- demureness,
- unobtrusiveness,
- docilities,
- timidity,
- nonresistance,
- abasement,
- mortification,
- reserve,
- docility,
- lack of pride,
- resignation,
- passiveness,
- Non-resistance,
- unpretentiousness,
- submissiveness,
- meekness,
- subservience,
- inferiority complex,
- self-abasement,
- subjection,
- diffidence,
- bashfulness,
- Lowliness,
- obedience.
v.
•fawn (verb)- creep,
- cringe,
- cave in to,
- invite,
- curry favor,
- toady,
- jolly,
- fall on one's knees,
- lay it on,
- scrape,
- make up to,
- butter up,
- be at beck and call,
- truckle,
- pay court,
- yield,
- flatter,
- blandish,
- crouch,
- play up to,
- pander,
- debase,
- crawl,
- fall all over,
- cater to,
- court,
- honey up,
- apple-polish,
- stoop,
- be obsequious,
- submit,
- cotton,
- slaver,
- cajole,
- bow,
- defer,
- oil,
- kneel,
- grovel,
- abase,
- buddy up,
- brownnose,
- lick boots,
- be servile,
- kowtow,
- cower.
Other synonyms:
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- ingratiating.
- envious,
- accept,
- Dunning,
- Fine-spoken,
- daubing,
- pliant,
- conceive,
- talent,
- brown-nosing,
- accredit,
- sleek,
- indulgence,
- slavishness,
- unresisting,
- Abased,
- crafty,
- understand,
- buncombe,
- tractable,
- yielding,
- enslaved,
- wheedle,
- suppose,
- Dough-faced,
- Honey-tongued,
- slippery,
- expect,
- Deferring,
- coquetry,
- obliging,
- insinuation,
- greasy,
- compliment,
- handshaking,
- calculate,
- suspect,
- Recoiling,
- Toadying,
- gushing,
- gratifying,
- deferential,
- dependent,
- smooth-spoken,
- accommodating,
- craven,
- timeserving,
- bland,
- backscratching,
- slimy,
- Prosternation,
- believe,
- parasitical,
- imagine,
- Abjectness,
- Sycophantish,
- sneaking,
- Sycophantical,
- vileness,
- meanness,
- baseness,
- specious,
- praise,
- Flinching,
- back-scratching,
- sweet-talking,
- crouching,
- parasitism,
- assume,
- Wincing,
- Captation,
- supple,
- Flexing,
- Sponging,
- Littering,
- browning,
- Cajolement,
- fawn,
- consider,
- Mousing,
- Blarneying,
- fawner,
- toad,
- quailing,
- Flunkyism,
- Toad-eating,
- arse-licking,
- Funking,
- fair words,
- obeisance,
- Whelping,
- Honey-mouthed,
- cowardice,
- soapy,
- slick,
- Distorting,
- arse-kissing,
- sugary,
- Insinuating,
- Genuflecting,
- reckon,
- apple-polishing,
- think,
- imbibing,
- Servileness,
- obsequiously,
- pussyfooting,
- snobbishness,
- on bended knee,
- ass-licking,
- ass-kissing,
- Sycophantism,
- sordid,
- Slobbery,
- Mean-spirited,
- complaisant,
- hope,
- Tufthunting,
- taffy,
- acquiescence,
- beggarly,
- slithery,
- smarminess,
- sweet nothings,
- mean-spiritedness,
- absorbing,
- bunkum,
- soft-soaping,
- Snivelling,
- insinuate,
- boot-licking,
- prostration,
- Fawningly,
- coax,
- sucking,
- acquiescent,
- Blandiloquence,
- Huddling,
- slavery,
- smooth-tongued,
- Gloze,
- Subserviency,
- grease,
- Time-serving,
- sliminess,
- unresistant,
- Blandishing,
- genuflection,
- soap,
- ingratiate,
- guess,
- submission,
- abjection.
Antonyms for Fawning:
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adj.
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abject
exalted, excellent, commendable, worthy, magnificent, noble.
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complimentary
disparaging, critical, reproachful, Censuring, Denouncing, insulting, unflattering, Blaming.
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fawning
aloof, disinterested, unfriendly, proud, cool.
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fulsome
reasonable, sincere.
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abject
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n.
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flattery
condemnation, denunciation, castigation, belittlement, insult, offense.
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humility
assertiveness, egoism, arrogance, self-importance, pretentiousness, pride.
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flattery
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p. pr. & vb. n.
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Other antonyms:
unservile, unsubmissive.
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Other antonyms:
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v.
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fawn
ignore.
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fawn
Homophones for Fawning:
- feminize, fence, funniness, finance, fenusa, finnish, finances, fungus, fungi, finis, fungia, famous, funk, finocchio, feng shui, fivepence, fiancee, faineance, fennic, fungous, finicky, fewness, feminise, foaminess, foaming, faunus, funny house, fomes, fink, funka, finnic, fang, finish, fancy, famish, fiance, finesse, finch, fibbing, faience, funky, fumes, Funnies, funkaceae, fineness, feminineness.