What is another word for fawning?
440 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ fˈɔːnɪŋ], [ fˈɔːnɪŋ], [ f_ˈɔː_n_ɪ_ŋ]
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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.
How to use "Fawning" in context?
When most people think about fawns, the images that come to mind are of cute calves or tiny deer in the forest. But the term can also refer to people who are excessively devoted to or influenced by someone or something. fawning can refer to any kind of excessive or uncritical admiration or respect, and it's most commonly seen in situations where someone feels like they are being outperformed or ignored. For example, in cases of romantic love, the fawning might include showering the other person with compliments, doing anything to make them happy, or going out of their way to be near them.
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.
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