fawning

Other forms of fawning

comparative

fawninger·

superlative

fawningest·

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 fawning

What does fawning mean?

fawning means "attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fawning?

fawning has 2 syllables: faw-ning. The stress falls on "faw". In IPA it is /ˈfɔnɪŋ/.

What is another word for fawning?

Close synonyms include bootlicking, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish, bootlicking. 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 fawning a common word?

fawning is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.