Antonyms for groveling


Grammar : Adj
Spell : gruhv-uhl, grov-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈgrʌv əl, ˈgrɒv-


Definition of groveling

Origin :
  • 1590s, Shakespearian back-formation of groveling (Middle English), regarded as a present participle but really an adverb, from Old Norse grufe "prone" + obsolete adverbial suffix -ling (which survives also as the -long in headlong, sidelong); first element from Old Norse a grufu "on proneness." Perhaps related to creep. Related: Groveled; grovelled; groveling; grovelling.
  • adj servile
Example sentences :
  • He grabbed the groveling butcher and hoisted him from his wallow.
  • Extract from : « Louisiana Lou » by William West Winter
  • How groveling must be the ignorance which can be thus blinded!
  • Extract from : « Aztec Land » by Maturin M. Ballou
  • They had not the low and groveling spirit which usually incites mobs.
  • Extract from : « Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence » by Various
  • If in that moment she appeared a groveling thing, it was only for a moment.
  • Extract from : « The Blue Wall » by Richard Washburn Child
  • At every step she had to purchase silence by groveling humility.
  • Extract from : « Germinie Lacerteux » by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
  • Gasping, dying a thousand deaths, he lay there groveling in the dust.
  • Extract from : « Omega, the Man » by Lowell Howard Morrow
  • On the other side he is tied by this body of clay to the groveling earth.
  • Extract from : « Jewel Weed » by Alice Ames Winter
  • He is groveling to the public, sacrificing even his wife to the many headed.
  • Extract from : « Old Mole » by Gilbert Cannan
  • No great character can ever be built with low, groveling ideals in the mind.
  • Extract from : « The Victorious Attitude » by Orison Swett Marden
  • Without that they fall, and groveling die in weeds and dust.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) » by Robert G. Ingersoll

Synonyms for groveling

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