- fawning
- adj1. servile, slavish, obsequious, Obs. obsequent, subservient, menial, Obs., Rare. vernile; submissive, docile, unassertive, compliant, acquiescent, deferential, Tomish, Uncle Tomish, tractable, mealy-mouthed; groveling, crawling, creeping, slithering; kowtowing, crouching, stooping, bowing, bowing and scraping; whining, whimpering, sniveling.2. sycophantic, sycophantical, sycophantish, toady-ish, toadying, toadeating, flattering, truckling, wheedling, ingratiating, timeserving, Sl. bootlicking, Sl. footlicking, Inf. apple-polishing, Sl. brown-nosing, Obs. blanding, Obs., Rare. blandiloquous; buttery, candied, unctuous, oily, honey-mouthed, smooth-talking, sweet-talking, smooth-tongued, Rare. blandilo- quent.n3. servility, servileness, slavishness, obsequiousness, obsequence, subservience, Obs. vernility; sub-missiveness, docility, unassertiveness, compliance, acquiescence, deference, tractability, tractableness, Tomishness, Uncle Tomishness; prostration, obeisance, abjection, abjectness, self-abasement; groveling, crawling, creeping, slithering; kowtowing, crouching, bowing, bowing and scraping; squirming, cringing, cowering; whining, whimpering, sniveling.4. sycophancy, sycophantism, toadyism, toadeating, tufthunting, lip-homage, mouth-honor, unctuousness, fawningness, flattery, Inf. butter, Inf. oil, Inf. honey, Sl. banana oil, Sl. goo, Rare. blandiloquence, Obs. blanding, Obs., Rare. blandation, Obs., Rare. blandil-oquy; truckling, Sl. falling all over, toadying, slavering, Inf. buttering, Inf. soaping, Inf. oiling, Inf. honeying, Inf. apple-polishing; All Sl. shining up to, sucking up to, playing up to, buttering-up, brown-nosing; courting, paying court to, currying favor, dancing attendance upon, licking [s.o.'s] shoes, kissing [s.o.'s] feet, Sl. bootlicking.5. cajolery, wheedling, beguilement, beguiling, blandishment, blandishing, blarney, coaxing, palaver, palavering, Inf. soft soap, Inf. sweet talk, Inf. honeyed words, Sl. line, Sl. snow job, Archaic. gloze; humoring, jollying, pampering, coddling, petting, pandering to, catering to, Inf. stroking.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.