cringing (Meaning)
cringing (s)
totally submissive
Synonyms & Antonyms of cringing
Synonyms:
- naïve
- cowering
- deferential
- shrinking
- unaffected
- unassertive
- resigned
- yielding
- acquiescent
- submissive
- compliant
Antonyms:
- saucy
- arrogant
- uppish
- lordly
- confident
- cocky
- impertinent
- bumptious
- conceited
- cocky
- overweening
- brassy
- audacious
- presumptuous
- uppity
- supercilious
- presumptuous
- haughty
- pompous
- uppity
- uppish
- aggressive
- huffy
- huffy
- bold
- peremptory
- impudent
- brash
- assertive
- impertinent
- cheeky
- high-and-mighty
- high-and-mighty
- superior
- high-handed
- aggressive
- bold
- presuming
- high-hat
- lordly
- conceited
- imperious
- pompous
- confident
- egotistic
- saucy
- overweening
- peremptory
- high-handed
- egotistical
- forward
- pretentious
- supercilious
- haughty
- pretentious
- chesty
- smug
- highfalutin
- brassy
- audacious
- cheeky
- egotistic
- impudent
- superior
- highfalutin
- egotistical
- forward
- presuming
- chesty
- bumptious
- arrogant
- assertive
- high-hat
- brash
- smug
- imperious
Synonyms:
- meek
- humble
- unassuming
- sheepish
- ingenuous
- retiring
- passive
- timid
- plain
- lowly
- demure
- naive
- diffident
- subdued
- reserved
- bashful
- unaggressive
Antonyms:
- boastful
- toploftical
- dominating
- egoistical
- boastful
- fastuous
- self-assertive
- vain
- swaggering
- hubristic
- disdainful
- self-satisfied
- self-confident
- egocentric
- self-confident
- hoity-toity
- patronizing
- domineering
- domineering
- hoity-toity
- dominant
- self-satisfied
- toplofty
- bombastic
- toplofty
- prideful
- egocentric
- huffish
- self-assertive
- overconfident
- egoistic
- fastuous
- condescending
- overbearing
- self-asserting
- vainglorious
- self-asserting
- disdainful
- huffish
- hubristic
- narcissistic
- egoistic
- vain
- vainglorious
- dominant
- dominating
- bombastic
- showy
- patronizing
- toploftical
- cocksure
- egoistical
- prideful
- narcissistic
- hifalutin
- showy
- overbearing
- swaggering
- cocksure
- overconfident
- condescending
- hifalutin
Synonyms:
- self-deprecating
- modest
- mousey
- simple
- introverted
- shy
- quiet
- mousy
- unobtrusive
- overmodest
- self-effacing
- down-to-earth
- self-deprecatory
- unpretentious
Antonyms:
- unreserved
- swelled-headed
- flamboyant
- stuck-up
- uninhibited
- self-complacent
- immodest
- self-congratulatory
- flamboyant
- magisterial
- immodest
- swelled-headed
- extraverted
- stuck-up
- extroverted
- self-obsessed
- extroverted
- pontificating
- self-engrossed
- self-engrossed
- self-pleased
- magisterial
- outgoing
- self-affected
- self-important
- unreserved
- self-complacent
- self-conceited
- ostentatious
- ostentatious
- self-pleased
- outgoing
- self-conceited
- pontificating
- braggy
- self-centered
- self-contented
- braggy
- self-congratulatory
- self-centered
- extraverted
- self-obsessed
- uninhibited
- self-affected
- self-contented
- self-important
cringing Sentence Examples
- 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.
- Her attempt at singing karaoke was so off-key that it had everyone cringing.
- The cringing expression on his face showed his discomfort with the situation.
- As the comedian's jokes fell flat, I could feel the audience cringing in their seats.
- The cringing sensation in my stomach told me I had made a terrible mistake.
- I found myself cringing inwardly as my friend shared her embarrassing story.
- The sight of the cake collapsing had everyone cringing in sympathy for the baker.
FAQs About the word cringing
totally submissive
naïve, cowering, deferential,shrinking, unaffected, unassertive, resigned, yielding, acquiescent, submissive
saucy,arrogant, uppish, lordly, confident, cocky, impertinent, bumptious, conceited, cocky
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.
