Synonyms for CREEPING
creep·ing

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.5 / 2 votes

1. crawl, crawling, creep, creepingnoun

   a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body

   "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep"

   Synonyms:
   crawl, creep, weirdo, weirdy, weirdie, front crawl, crawling, spook, creeping

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1. • Locomotion

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1. creepingadjective

   Synonyms:
   crawling

2. creepingadjective

   Synonyms:
   fawning, sycophantic

3. creepingadjective

   Synonyms:
   (Bot.) growing on the ground or on supports

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:2.3 / 4 votes

1. creepingadjective

   Synonyms:
   crawling, reptile, reptant, fawning, truckling, obsequious, sycophantic

2. creepingnoun

   Synonyms:
   reptation, formication

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1. List of paraphrases for "creeping":

   crawling

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1. Extinction Rebellion:

   Despite our government's denial, this is a national disaster creeping ever closer to the capital.

2. Yves Guillemot:

   We don't want them sitting on the board, because they're implementing a creeping control strategy to take over the company.

3. William James:

   I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capilillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.

4. Professor Murphy:

   Whatever the queen's personal rating it's better than the... political leaders', when you get past trauma of Diana's death into the last 10, 15 years or so, in a way there's a new kind of creeping respect for the way she's stayed the same, always done her duty, still keeping the show on the road.

5. Wayne Havenhand:

   I kept creeping closer and closer to it, and moving round to capture it from different angles, then it yawned, and I couldnt help but laugh to myself I had a friend with me who joked that the owl seemed bored of being photographed.