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Synonyms for fawning
adj deferential, grovelingAntonyms for fawning
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More words related to fawning
abject
adjective. hopeless and downtrodden
adulation
noun. overenthusiastic praise
blarney
noun. flattery
complimentary
adjective. flattering
- adulatory
- appreciative
- approbative
- approbatory
- approving
- celebrating
- commendatory
- congratulatory
- courtly
- encomiastic
- encomiastical
- eulogistic
- fair-spoken
- fawning
- highly favorable
- honeyed
- honoring
- laudatory
- panegyrical
- plauditory
- polite
- praiseful
- respectful
- sycophantic
- unctuous
- well-wishing
- with high praise
- with highest recommendation
flattery
noun. false praise, compliments
- adulation
- applause
- approbation
- blandishment
- blarney
- bootlicking
- cajolery
- commendation
- encomium
- eulogy
- eyewash
- fawning
- flattering
- flummery
- fulsomeness
- gallantry
- gratification
- hokum
- honeyed words
- incense
- ingratiation
- jive
- laud
- mush
- obsequiousness
- palaver
- plaudits
- pretty speech
- puffery
- servility
- smoke
- snow
- snow job
- soft words
- soft-soap
- stroke
- sweet talk
- sycophancy
- toadyism
- tribute
- truckling
- unctuousness
fulsome
adjective. sickening or excessive behavior
humility
noun. humbleness, modesty
- abasement
- bashfulness
- demureness
- diffidence
- docility
- fawning
- inferiority complex
- lack of pride
- lowliness
- meekness
- mortification
- nonresistance
- obedience
- obsequiousness
- passiveness
- reserve
- resignation
- self-abasement
- self-abnegation
- servility
- sheepishness
- shyness
- subjection
- submissiveness
- subservience
- timidity
- timorousness
- unobtrusiveness
- unpretentiousness
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
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