Definition for Grovelling:

• Mean; without dignity.

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.

• n.

  •grovelling (noun)
  • submissive.

• 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:

  •adj.
  • behaviour,
  • fawning,
  • flattering,
  • foul,
  • grovelling,
  • menial,
  • obsequious,
  • scandalous,
  • servile,
  • shoddy,
  • wretched,
  • Obeisant,
  • base,
  • sycophantic.
  •n.
  • abject,
  • cringing,
  • groveling,
  • slavish,
  • wormlike,
  • wormy.

Paraphrases for Grovelling:

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    lowering.

Antonyms for Grovelling:

• adj.

  • base
    honest, moral, noble, good.
  • menial
    skilled, superior, talented, elevated.
  • Other antonyms:
    domineering.

• v.

  • court
    ignore, disregard.
  • cower
    come out.
  • cringe
    come forward.
  • crouch
    stretch.
  • grovel
    boast.

Grovelling Sentence Examples:

• During this short dialogue, the justice, who had heard of Sir Launcelot's family and fortune, though an utter stranger to his person, was seized with such pangs of terror and compunction, as a grovelling mind may be supposed to have felt in such circumstances; and they seemed to produce the same unsavoury effects that are so humorously delineated by the inimitable Hogarth, in his print of Felix on his tribunal, done in the Dutch style.

• " The ladders are thrown down," replied Rebecca, shuddering; " the soldiers lie grovelling under them like crushed reptiles.