280 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ɡɹˈɒvəlɪŋ], [ ɡɹˈɒvəlɪŋ], [ ɡ_ɹ_ˈɒ_v_ə_l_ɪ_ŋ]

Similar words for grovelling:

• base (adjective)
• menial (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• grovelling (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• court (verb)
• cower (verb)
• crawl (verb)
• creep (verb)
• cringe (verb)
• crouch (verb)
• grovel (verb)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for grovelling

Synonyms for Grovelling:

• adj.

  • base (adjective)
  • dishonorable,
  • abominable,
  • ignoble,
  • coarse,
  • pitiful,
  • immoral,
  • contemptible,
  • mean,
  • humble,
  • ugly,
  • indelicate,
  • poor,
  • despicable,
  • lowly,
  • disreputable,
  • loathsome,
  • trashy,
  • common,
  • unworthy,
  • corrupt,
  • shameful,
  • vile,
  • sorry,
  • sleazy,
  • disgraceful,
  • plebeian,
  • cheap,
  • sordid,
  • squalid,
  • paltry,
  • worthless,
  • depraved,
  • offensive.
  • menial (adjective)
  • dull,
  • baseborn,
  • routine,
  • ignominious,
  • boring,
  • demeaning,
  • low,
  • subservient,
  • degrading,
  • humdrum,
  • unskilled.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • foul,
  • flattering,
  • wretched,
  • scandalous,
  • servile,
  • grovelling,
  • obsequious,
  • base,
  • behaviour,
  • Obeisant,
  • shoddy,
  • sycophantic,
  • menial,
  • fawning.

• n.

  • grovelling (noun)
  • submissive.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • slavish,
  • wormy,
  • groveling,
  • cringing,
  • abject,
  • wormlike.

• v.

  • court (verb)
  • entice,
  • praise,
  • ask in marriage,
  • grovel,
  • date,
  • make time with,
  • go out with,
  • entreat,
  • woo,
  • take out,
  • curry favor,
  • propose,
  • follow,
  • bid,
  • invite,
  • seek,
  • attract,
  • solicit,
  • pander to,
  • pay addresses to,
  • spoon,
  • allure,
  • set one's cap,
  • make love to,
  • run after,
  • spark,
  • please,
  • make overture,
  • pop the question,
  • pursue,
  • go with,
  • chase,
  • go together,
  • sue,
  • sweetheart,
  • charm,
  • gallant,
  • go steady,
  • seek the hand of,
  • pay court to,
  • serenade,
  • cultivate,
  • keep company with,
  • captivate,
  • Importune.
  • cower (verb)
  • skulk,
  • draw back,
  • flinch,
  • brownnose,
  • shrink,
  • blench,
  • sneak,
  • toady,
  • quail,
  • wince,
  • tremble,
  • recoil,
  • fawn.
  • crawl (verb)
  • clamber,
  • hang back,
  • inch,
  • scrabble,
  • slither,
  • plod,
  • worm,
  • wriggle,
  • lag,
  • slide,
  • pull oneself along,
  • drag oneself along,
  • go on belly,
  • drag,
  • abase oneself,
  • lollygag,
  • poke,
  • move on hands and knees,
  • go on all fours,
  • loiter along,
  • writhe,
  • move at snail's pace,
  • squirm.
  • creep (verb)
  • lurk,
  • crawl on all fours,
  • edge,
  • scramble,
  • gumshoe,
  • steal,
  • glide,
  • pussyfoot,
  • insinuate,
  • slink,
  • tiptoe,
  • approach unnoticed.
  • cringe (verb)
  • quiver,
  • start,
  • dodge,
  • shy,
  • duck.
  • crouch (verb)
  • squat,
  • Quat,
  • dip,
  • bend,
  • huddle,
  • scrooch down,
  • bend down,
  • hunker down,
  • hunch,
  • bow.
  • grovel (verb)
  • bow and scrape,
  • snivel,
  • kowtow,
  • suck up to,
  • beseech,
  • brown-nose,
  • cower,
  • butter up,
  • humor,
  • eat humble pie,
  • truckle,
  • crawl,
  • blandish,
  • cringe,
  • soft-soap,
  • make up to,
  • apple-polish,
  • stoop,
  • fall all over,
  • cater to,
  • flatter,
  • revere,
  • creep,
  • eat dirt,
  • crouch,
  • implore,
  • bootlick,
  • play up to,
  • eat crow,
  • beg,
  • wheedle,
  • pamper,
  • kiss one's feet,
  • beg for mercy,
  • make much of,
  • humble oneself,
  • court,
  • kneel.

• Other synonyms:

  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • creeping,
  • brown-nosing,
  • degraded,
  • infra dig,
  • Sycophantish,
  • sugary,
  • slavishness,
  • baseness,
  • slimy,
  • Toadyism,
  • inferior,
  • Time-serving,
  • submissiveness,
  • unctuousness,
  • wicked,
  • cowering,
  • miserable,
  • wheedling,
  • acquiescence,
  • abjection,
  • obsequiousness,
  • scurrilous,
  • servility,
  • crawling,
  • Toad-eating,
  • truckling,
  • undignified,
  • boot-licking,
  • Mean-spirited,
  • sycophancy,
  • dishonourable,
  • deferential,
  • flattery,
  • smarmy,
  • apple-polishing,
  • oily,
  • Abjectness,
  • Cajoling,
  • meanness,
  • arse-licking,
  • Servileness,
  • Snivelling,
  • Toadying,
  • downtrodden,
  • spineless,
  • kowtowing,
  • saccharine,
  • vermiculate,
  • worm-eaten,
  • vileness,
  • scraping,
  • ingratiating,
  • buttery,
  • submission,
  • smarminess,
  • acquiescent,
  • sweet-talking,
  • mealy-mouthed,
  • slippery,
  • arse-kissing,
  • unctuous,
  • toadyish,
  • mean-spiritedness,
  • Sycophantism,
  • ass-kissing,
  • craven,
  • ass-licking,
  • sliminess,
  • subservience.

Paraphrases for Grovelling:

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    lowering.