creeping

creeping
(Roget's IV) modif.
1. [In the act of creeping]
Syn. crawling, worming, squirming, writhing, wriggling, slithering, groveling, crouching, cowering, quailing, slinking, skulking, inching, dragging, lagging, shambling, limping, faltering, shuffling, hobbling, staggering, sneaking, moving slowly, barely moving, going at a snail's pace, poking, on all fours.
2. [Given to creeping]
Syn. reptant, reptilian, vermicular, serpentine, prostrate, clinging, dwarf, spreading, trailing, procumbent, stoloniferous, growing along the ground, horizontal, recumbent, vinelike, climbing.
Ant. upright*, standing, vertical.

English dictionary for students. 2013.

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