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See definition of supplicating on Dictionary.com
  • as inapologetic
  • as inappealing
  • as inpiteous
  • as inpleading

synonyms for supplicating

  • conciliatory
  • contrite
  • regretful
  • remorseful
  • repentant
  • sorry
  • atoning
  • attritional
  • compunctious
  • expiatory
  • explanatory
  • on one's knees
  • penitent
  • penitential
  • propitiatory
  • rueful
  • self-effacing
  • self-incriminating
  • engaging
  • tempting
  • beseeching
  • emanate
  • entrancing
  • entreating
  • imploring
  • pleading
  • present
  • agreeable
  • cute
  • lovable
  • nice
On this page you'll find 73 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to supplicating, such as: conciliatory, contrite, regretful, remorseful, repentant, and sorry.

antonyms for supplicating

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  • happy
  • unrepentant
  • defiant
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    How to use supplicating in a sentence

    At times she seemed to hold out empty, supplicating hands, palms outward, showing that she could give no more.
    THE CREATORSMAY SINCLAIR
    The man got to his knees and, turning, raised supplicating hands.
    THE GIRL AND THE BILLBANNISTER MERWIN
    A very handsome footman, not only in white gloves but in white calves, was soon supplicating him to deign to enter a lift.
    THE REGENTE. ARNOLD BENNETT
    Already excited, Eusapia asks in a supplicating voice and broken words that we lessen the lights.
    MYSTERIOUS PSYCHIC FORCESCAMILLE FLAMMARION
    And as she drew away from him her hands went out, were pressed together with an imploring, supplicating gesture.
    THE DWELLING PLACE OF LIGHT, COMPLETEWINSTON CHURCHILL
    They might speak; the Senate would hear them; and Acton, moved by the supplicating glances of his two companions, arose.
    SNNICAVICENTE BLASCO IBEZ
    As I cautiously proceeded, a hand was raised over the weeds, and waved in the air in the most supplicating manner.
    AUDUBON AND HIS JOURNALS, VOL. 2MARIA R. AUDUBON
    He wrote that "the supplicating tears of the women and the moving petitions of the men melted him into deadly sorrow."
    THE STORY OF AMERICAN HISTORYALBERT F. BLAISDELL
    No cry for quarter, no supplicating look for mercy; it was the death struggle of vengeance and despair.
    CHARLES O'MALLEY, THE IRISH DRAGOON, VOLUME 2 (OF 2)CHARLES LEVER
    And for all these meetings, for all her supplicating or imperious notes, what had been his reward?
    THE GREY CLOAKHAROLD MACGRATH
    SYNONYM OF THE DAY
    OCTOBER 26, 1985
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    capacitor

    WORDS RELATED TO SUPPLICATING

    • atoning
    • attritional
    • compunctious
    • conciliatory
    • contrite
    • expiatory
    • explanatory
    • on one's knees
    • penitent
    • penitential
    • propitiatory
    • regretful
    • remorseful
    • repentant
    • rueful
    • self-effacing
    • self-incriminating
    • sorry
    • supplicating
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