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GROVELING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does groveling mean?
• GROVELING (adjective)
The adjective GROVELING has 1 sense:
1. totally submissive
Familiarity information: GROVELING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Totally submissive
Synonyms:
cringing; groveling; grovelling; wormlike; wormy
Similar:
submissive (inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination)
Context examples
I hope the gentle reader will excuse me for dwelling on these and the like particulars, which, however insignificant they may appear to groveling vulgar minds, yet will certainly help a philosopher to enlarge his thoughts and imagination, and apply them to the benefit of public as well as private life, which was my sole design in presenting this and other accounts of my travels to the world; wherein I have been chiefly studious of truth, without affecting any ornaments of learning or of style.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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