bowing

1. 1.

   showing an excessively deferential manner

   Synonymsbowed

   Similarsubmissive

Other forms of bowing

plural

bowings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bowing

What does bowing mean?

bowing means "bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bowing?

bowing has 2 syllables: bo-wing. The stress falls on "bo". In IPA it is /ˈboʊɪŋ/.

What is another word for bowing?

Close synonyms include bow, obeisance, bowed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bowing a common word?

bowing is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bowing?

1 word rhymes with bowing. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.