Synonyms for creeping
creep·ing

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.5 / 2 votes

1. crawl, crawling, creep, creepingnoun

   a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body

   "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep"

   Synonyms:
   crawl, creep, weirdo, weirdy, weirdie, front crawl, crawling, spook

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1. • Locomotion

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1. creepingadjective

   Synonyms:
   crawling

2. creepingadjective

   Synonyms:
   fawning, sycophantic

3. creepingadjective

   Synonyms:
   (Bot.) growing on the ground or on supports

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:2.3 / 4 votes

1. creepingadjective

   Synonyms:
   crawling, reptile, reptant, fawning, truckling, obsequious, sycophantic

2. creepingnoun

   Synonyms:
   reptation, formication

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1. List of paraphrases for "creeping":

   crawling

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1. Jonathan Swift:

   Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

2. Maxine Waters:

   You claim that socialism has engulfed this country, that it keeps creeping, that it's gonna take over private businesses, etc., etc., that is not happening.

3. Joe Mallen:

   Inflation might be creeping up but we're nowhere near the doomsday scenario of it getting out of control, still, with inflation ticking up a bit and the economy not screaming recession, The Fed should sit back. It can wait and see. There's no need to stimulate the economy or tighten rates.

4. Jonathan Foss:

   Socialism is creeping up on us.

5. Yiatan Chu:

   Many of the things creeping into progressive schools are things that the state supports but a lot of parents do not, the moms voting for Lee Zeldin want a return to the foundations of education: math, reading and science. We don't need political activism or age-inappropriate lessons for our kids.