Antonyms for cringe
krɪndʒcringe

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. cringe

   Antonyms:
   face, confront, defy, dare

   Synonyms:
   crouch, bend, bow, fawn, grabble, grub

Matched Categories

1. • Bend
   • Move

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1. flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quailverb

   draw back, as with fear or pain

   "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"

   Synonyms:
   rebound, cower, bound, shrivel up, reverberate, quail, shrink, flinch, funk, shrivel, grovel, spring, ricochet, kick back, take a hop, wither, backfire, bounce, backlash, resile, reduce, wince, kick, recoil, squinch, creep, crawl, squint, contract, fawn

2. fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovelverb

   show submission or fear

   Synonyms:
   cower, sneak, recoil, bootlick, fawn, quail, flinch, funk, crawl, grovel, huddle, wince, truckle, kowtow, kotow, pussyfoot, squinch, creep, mouse, suck up, toady, shrink

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1. cringeverb

   Synonyms:
   truckle, fawn, crouch

How to use cringe in a sentence?

1. Heather Thalwitzer:

   I’ll let him have the birthday cake, but I’ll cringe.

2. Peter Farrelly:

   I was an idiot, i did this decades ago and I thought I was being funny and the truth is Im embarrassed and it makes me cringe now. Im deeply sorry.

3. Joacim Hernandez:

   There are some things Joacim Hernandez says that you have to cringe.

4. Taylor Budowich:

   It seems like perpetual-failed-candidate Hillary Clinton’s basket of deplorables has run stale, not unlike herself, it’s pathetic, it’s divisive, and it is further cementing her legacy of cringe.

5. Brian Fallon:

   I thought it was very cringe-worthy on many levels. Elizabeth Warren doesn't need Bill de Blasio's advice on what's good for the progressive movement, i don't even think it's true, what he tried to say at the end of the tweet, that if the situation were reversed Bernie would have endorsed her already. I don't think that's true at all.

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