groveling

Meaning of groveling

verb
  1. To be prone on the ground.
  2. To crawl.
  3. To abase oneself before another person.
  4. To be slavishly nice to someone or apologize in the hope of securing something.
  5. To take pleasure in mundane activities.

noun

The act of one who grovels.

Information about groveling

  • The plural form of groveling is: grovelings.
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Hyphenation of groveling

grov-el-ing

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • groveling is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

groveling synonyms

Meaning cringing:

cringing, grovelling, wormlike, wormy

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