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creepingadjective moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speedat this creeping pace of progress we'll never have the float ready for the parade crawling, dallying, dawdling, dilatory, dillydallying, dragging, laggard, lagging, languid, leisurely, poking, poky(or pokey), slow, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, tardy, unhurried deliberate, measuredinactive, inert, lethargic, loafing, lounginglingering, loitering, tarryingambling, heavy-footed, inching, plodding, shuffling, slow-footedstrollingdecelerating, slowingfilibustering, procrastinating, stalling barreling, bolting, breakneck, breathless, brisk, careering, dizzy, fast, fleet, flying, hasty, hurrying, lightning, meteoric, quick, racing, rapid, rocketing, running, rushing, scooting, scudding, scurrying, snappy, speeding, speedy, swift, warp-speed, whirling, whirlwind, whisking, zipping expeditious, prompt, readyaccelerated, hastened, quickenedhurried, rushed creepingverbpresent participle of creepto advance gradually beyond the usual or desirable limitswater crept slowly over the top of the tub and onto the floor encroaching, inching, worming snaking, sneakingentrenching(also intrenching), impinging, infringing, intruding, invadingoverpassing, overreaching, overrunning, overshooting, overstepping to move or act slowlythat Friday afternoon we were just creeping, waiting for the bell to sound so that we could start the long weekend crawling, dallying, dawdling, delaying, diddling, dillydallying, dragging, lagging, lingering, loitering, lollygagging(also lallygagging), moping, poking, shilly-shallying, tarrying fiddling (around), fooling around, messing around, monkeying (around), playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), triflinghanging (around or out), idling, loafing, lolling, loungingambling, easing, inching, lumbering, plodding, sauntering, shuffling, staggering, strollingdecelerating, slowing (down or up)filibustering, procrastinating, stalling, temporizing dragging one's feet(also dragging one's heels), dropping behind, falling behind, hanging fire, marking time, taking one's time barreling(or barrelling), bolting, careering, coursing, dashing, flying, hastening, hotfooting (it), hurrying, racing, ripping, rocketing, running, rushing, scooting, scudding, scurrying, speeding, tearing, whirling, whisking, whizzing, zipping bowling, breezing, darting, humping, hurtling, hustling, scrambling, stampedinggalloping, jogging, running, sprinting, trottingaccelerating, quickening, speeding (up)catching up, fast-forwarding, outpacing, outrunning, outstripping, overtaking to move slowly with the body close to the groundthe kitten crept silently across the floor before suddenly pouncing on the mouse bellying, crawling, groveling(or grovelling), sliding, slithering, snaking, worming, wriggling crouching, squattingedging, inching, nosingskulking, sneaking, stealing, tiptoeing to move slowlythe class hour seems to creep by crawling, creaking (along), dragging, inching, limping, nosing, oozing, plodding, poking, slouching, snailing lumbering, shambling, shuffling, tramping, trudging flying, racing, speeding, whizzing, zipping floating, gliding, sailinghurrying, tearing in the 14th century |