Definition for Fawning:

• Courting servilely; flattering by cringing and meanness.

Synonyms for Fawning:

• adj.

  •abject (adjective)
  • dejected,
  • pitiable,
  • outcast,
  • miserable,
  • fawning,
  • base,
  • contemptible,
  • low,
  • worthless,
  • wretched,
  • hangdog,
  • dishonorable,
  • degraded,
  • forlorn,
  • deplorable,
  • humiliated.
  •complimentary (adjective)
  • approbatory,
  • honoring,
  • courtly,
  • congratulatory,
  • laudatory,
  • Commendatory,
  • appreciative,
  • polite,
  • Celebrating,
  • respectful,
  • approving,
  • unctuous.
  •fawning (adjective)
  • humble,
  • prostrate,
  • compliant,
  • parasitic,
  • kowtowing,
  • cowering,
  • sniveling,
  • bowing,
  • sycophant,
  • brownnosing,
  • scraping,
  • mealy-mouthed,
  • spineless,
  • submissive,
  • crawling.
  •flattering (adjective)
  • complimentary,
  • Glorifying,
  • adulating,
  • Idolizing,
  • Cajoling.
  •fulsome (adjective)
  • extravagant,
  • coarse,
  • glib,
  • oleaginous,
  • saccharine,
  • smarmy,
  • oily,
  • suave,
  • mealymouthed,
  • cloying,
  • overdone,
  • magniloquent,
  • grandiloquent,
  • nauseating,
  • inordinate,
  • buttery,
  • bombastic,
  • immoderate,
  • smooth,
  • sanctimonious,
  • Canting,
  • offensive,
  • hypocritical.
  •servile (adjective)
  • unresisting,
  • eating humble pie.
  •subservient (adjective)
  • 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,
  • commendation,
  • applause,
  • worship.
  •blandishment (noun)
  • sweet words.
  •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.
  •bootlicking (noun)
  • bootlicking.
  •fawning (noun)
  • insincere,
  • toadyish.
  •flattery (noun)
  • 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.
  •humility (noun)
  • 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.
  •flattering (verb)
  • Extolling,
  • complimenting.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • ingratiating.
  •pusillanimity
  • cowardice.

Antonyms for Fawning:

• adj.

  • abject
    exalted, excellent, commendable, worthy, magnificent, noble.
  • complimentary
    disparaging, critical, reproachful, Censuring, Denouncing, insulting, unflattering, Blaming.
  • fawning
    aloof, disinterested, unfriendly, proud, cool.
  • fulsome
    reasonable, sincere.
  • menial
    skilled, superior, elevated, talented.

• n.

  • adulation
    abuse, criticism.
  • flattery
    condemnation, denunciation, castigation, belittlement, insult, offense.
  • humility
    assertiveness, egoism, arrogance, self-importance, pretentiousness, pride.

• p. pr. & vb. n.

  • Other antonyms:
    unservile, unsubmissive.

• v.

  • fawn
    ignore.

Fawning Sentence Examples:

• All the while they had played with England, skulking and running and fawning upon England, when our vital interests were at stake, and siding with England on the canal and on Oregon.

• Cringing and fawning, the outlaw heard what he was required to do.

Homophones for Fawning:

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