cowering Synonyms
Strongest:
- brash
- peremptory
- high-hat
- aggressive
- cheeky
- bumptious
- overweening
- egotistical
- audacious
- high-and-mighty
- overconfident
- smug
- pretentious
- imperious
- arrogant
- bold
- assertive
- confident
- lordly
- uppity
- pompous
- huffy
- supercilious
- saucy
- presuming
- presumptuous
- forward
- haughty
- brassy
- chesty
- cocky
- superior
- high-handed
- egotistic
- impudent
- conceited
- uppish
Strong:
- bombastic
- self-confident
- hifalutin
- narcissistic
- prideful
- dominating
- domineering
- disdainful
- boastful
- huffish
- fastuous
- egoistical
- vain
- highfalutin
- self-asserting
- overbearing
- vainglorious
- hoity-toity
- showy
- condescending
- toploftical
- patronizing
- egocentric
- hubristic
- impertinent
- dominant
- self-assertive
- swaggering
- egoistic
- toplofty
- cocksure
Weak:
- self-engrossed
- self-congratulatory
- self-centered
- immodest
- uninhibited
- braggy
- extroverted
- self-affected
- extraverted
- self-obsessed
- pontificating
- self-satisfied
- self-contented
- outgoing
- self-conceited
- magisterial
- unreserved
- self-important
- stuck-up
- flamboyant
- swelled-headed
- self-pleased
- ostentatious
- self-complacent
cowering Meaning
cowering
to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays, to shrink away or crouch down (as from fear)
FAQs About the word cowering
to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays, to shrink away or crouch down (as from fear)
resigned,shrinking, compliant, yielding, unassertive, deferential, acquiescent, submissive, cringing, meek
brash, peremptory, high-hat, aggressive, cheeky, bumptious, overweening, egotistical, audacious, high-and-mighty
The children cowered in fear as the monster approached.
The cat cowered under the bed during the thunderstorm.
The girl cowered in the corner, terrified by the intruder.
The dog cowered by the owner's feet, seeking protection.
