Synonyms of cringing

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adjective

as in shrinking

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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cringing

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verb

present participle of cringe

1

as in wincing

to draw back in fear, pain, or disgust

gruesome crime scene photos that made several jurors cringe

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wincing
• flinching
• recoiling
• shuddering
• trembling
• hesitating
• shrinking
• quailing
• shaking
• quivering
• quaking
• blenching
• squinching
• crouching
• blanching
• retreating
• whitening
• twitching
• withdrawing
• jerking
• faltering
• paling
• reeling
• receding
• wavering
• retiring
• starting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• approaching
• advancing
• nearing
• facing
• confronting
• challenging
• defying
• bearding

• approaching
• advancing
• nearing
• facing
• confronting
• challenging
• defying
• bearding

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2

as in flinching

to draw back or crouch down in fearful submission

the puppy cringed when his master raised the rolled-up newspaper

Synonyms & Similar Words

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