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

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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. Interior Minister Thomas De Maiziere:

   It is worrying that anti-immigration incitement is creeping into the heart of our society.

2. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

   Can everyday people come together and effectively organize against creeping overreach of one of the worlds biggest corporations ? Yes, they can.

3. Jonathan Miller:

   It isn’t a rocket ship, it is just creeping higher and every so often it creeps high enough to reach a new high.

4. Dwight D. Eisenhower:

   I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.

5. Kim Montes:

   When I came out here two hours after this crash happened, I was doing one mile an hour creeping along the interstate because I could not see in front of my vehicle.