GROVELER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does groveler mean? 

• GROVELER (noun)
  The noun GROVELER has 1 sense:

1. someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect

  Familiarity information: GROVELER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROVELER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

apple polisher; bootlicker; fawner; groveler; groveller; truckler

Hypernyms ("groveler" is a kind of...):

ass-kisser; crawler; lackey; sycophant; toady (a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage)

Derivation:

grovel (show submission or fear)

 Context examples 

Prone upon the floor lay Mr. March, with his respectable legs in the air, and beside him, likewise prone, was Demi, trying to imitate the attitude with his own short, scarlet-stockinged legs, both grovelers so seriously absorbed that they were unconscious of spectators, till Mr. Bhaer laughed his sonorous laugh, and Jo cried out, with a scandalized face...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)