Synonyms of cowering

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adjective

as in shrinking

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shrinking
• cringing
• submissive
• acquiescent
• unassertive
• compliant
• resigned
• deferential
• yielding
• unaffected
• naïve
• meek
• unaggressive
• timid
• naive
• passive
• subdued
• humble
• ingenuous
• bashful
• plain
• unassuming
• sheepish
• lowly
• retiring
• demure
• reserved
• mousy
• modest
• diffident
• introverted
• unobtrusive
• shy
• mousey
• down-to-earth
• simple
• unpretentious
• quiet
• overmodest
• self-effacing
• self-deprecating
• aw-shucks
• self-deprecatory

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• superior
• arrogant
• haughty
• aggressive
• egotistical
• uppity
• bumptious
• imperious
• supercilious
• pompous
• assertive
• forward
• lordly
• confident
• impudent
• pretentious
• peremptory
• overweening
• conceited
• high-and-mighty
• egotistic
• bold
• presumptuous
• huffy
• uppish
• presuming
• brash
• brassy
• cheeky
• cocky
• high-hat
• chesty
• smug
• high-handed
• saucy
• audacious
• overconfident
• impertinent
• narcissistic
• dominant
• highfalutin
• cocksure
• egocentric
• hubristic
• swaggering
• vain
• toplofty
• domineering
• bombastic
• toploftical
• huffish
• self-assertive
• dominating
• prideful
• self-asserting
• boastful
• egoistic
• hoity-toity
• hifalutin
• patronizing
• condescending
• fastuous
• overbearing
• egoistical
• vainglorious
• disdainful
• self-confident
• showy
• magisterial
• flamboyant
• self-centered
• self-contented
• self-satisfied
• swelled-headed
• ostentatious
• uninhibited
• self-affected
• self-pleased
• stuck-up
• self-important
• self-obsessed
• self-engrossed
• self-complacent
• unreserved
• self-congratulatory
• outgoing
• extraverted
• extroverted
• immodest
• self-conceited
• pontificating
• braggy

cowering

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verb

present participle of cower

as in cringing

to draw back or crouch down in fearful submission

the abused dog always cowered in the presence of its master

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cringing
• flinching
• grovelling
• quailing
• groveling
• recoiling
• shrinking
• kowtowing
• fawning
• blanching
• whitening
• toadying
• blenching
• squinching