cringing Synonyms
Strongest:
- high-and-mighty
- impertinent
- highfalutin
- cheeky
- egotistical
- imperious
- cocky
- arrogant
- forward
- peremptory
- overweening
- uppish
- arrogant
- lordly
- forward
- presuming
- brassy
- saucy
- haughty
- smug
- audacious
- brash
- bold
- impudent
- high-hat
- haughty
- saucy
- peremptory
- pompous
- smug
- huffy
- conceited
- impertinent
- superior
- chesty
- assertive
- highfalutin
- supercilious
- assertive
- pompous
- cocky
- brassy
- lordly
- high-handed
- superior
- impudent
- supercilious
- egotistical
- egotistic
- overweening
- bumptious
- pretentious
- uppity
- aggressive
- high-hat
- bold
- bumptious
- brash
- huffy
- presumptuous
- cheeky
- pretentious
- chesty
- high-handed
- imperious
- aggressive
- presuming
- confident
- confident
- uppity
- egotistic
- uppish
- presumptuous
- high-and-mighty
- conceited
- audacious
Strong:
- overbearing
- prideful
- toploftical
- self-satisfied
- showy
- toplofty
- self-asserting
- cocksure
- domineering
- showy
- vain
- hifalutin
- boastful
- egoistical
- egoistic
- swaggering
- fastuous
- huffish
- self-assertive
- egoistic
- dominating
- dominating
- disdainful
- self-assertive
- disdainful
- hoity-toity
- self-confident
- egoistical
- egocentric
- prideful
- egocentric
- vainglorious
- self-satisfied
- dominant
- toploftical
- hifalutin
- dominant
- hoity-toity
- huffish
- self-confident
- bombastic
- boastful
- vain
- overbearing
- overconfident
- swaggering
- patronizing
- hubristic
- narcissistic
- overconfident
- bombastic
- toplofty
- vainglorious
- condescending
- condescending
- cocksure
- hubristic
- fastuous
- domineering
- self-asserting
- patronizing
- narcissistic
Weak:
- self-obsessed
- self-affected
- flamboyant
- self-important
- self-congratulatory
- self-conceited
- self-centered
- self-congratulatory
- stuck-up
- self-pleased
- uninhibited
- outgoing
- self-centered
- extraverted
- ostentatious
- self-pleased
- self-complacent
- immodest
- self-complacent
- unreserved
- ostentatious
- magisterial
- pontificating
- braggy
- self-important
- self-contented
- extraverted
- stuck-up
- magisterial
- braggy
- extroverted
- swelled-headed
- immodest
- pontificating
- self-engrossed
- self-contented
- uninhibited
- self-obsessed
- self-conceited
- extroverted
- swelled-headed
- outgoing
- self-engrossed
- unreserved
- self-affected
- flamboyant
cringing Meaning
cringing (s)
totally submissive
FAQs About the word cringing
totally submissive
unassertive, submissive, acquiescent, yielding, naïve, resigned, unaffected, deferential, cowering,shrinking
high-and-mighty, impertinent, highfalutin, cheeky, egotistical, imperious, cocky, arrogant, forward, peremptory
I found myself cringing as I watched the actor stumble over his lines on stage.
His attempt at flirting with the waitress left me cringing with embarrassment.
The awkward silence that followed his inappropriate joke had everyone cringing.
I couldn't help but start cringing when I saw my old high school yearbook photo.
