GROVELING: Dictionary Entry and Meaning

Pronunciation:			gr'ovuling
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[adj]  totally submissive
	Synonyms:		cringing, grovelling, submissive, wormlike, wormy
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
	Definition:		\Grov"el*ing\, a. Lying prone; low; debased. [Written also {grovelling}.] ``A groveling creature.'' --Cowper.
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		abject, accumbent, apple-polishing, ass-kissing, backscratching, beggarly, bootlicking, brown-nosing, couchant, couche, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, decumbent, draped, fawnery, fawning, flat, flattering, flunkyism, footlicking, handshaking, hangdog, ingratiating, ingratiation, insinuation, kowtowing, lolling, lounging, lying, mealymouthed, mealymouthedness, obeisance, obeisant, obsequious, obsequiousness, on bended knee, parasitic, parasitism, procumbent, prone, prostrate, prostration, reclining, recumbent, reposing, resupine, sniveling, sponging, sprawled, sprawling, spread, supine, sycophancy, sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, toadyism, truckling, tufthunting