groveler

noun

Definition of grovelernext
as in worshiper

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for groveler
  1. zealot
  2. devotee
  3. fan
  4. enthusiast
  5. cultist
  6. minion
  7. idolater
  8. henchman
Noun
  • Outside of a handful of terminally online zealots who do more harm than good to their side, nobody is invested in today’s presidential side quests.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The Hold, its halls bereft of the zealots, liars, and dung-eating murderers who haunt it in Elden Ring, feels empty and perfunctory.
    — Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2025
Definition of zealot
Noun
  • Its devotees include Gwyneth Paltrow, Emily Ratajkowski (who seems to be especially fond of Silk Laundry’s Long Bias Cut Skirt, having sported it many, many times), and even Jake Gyllenhaal (who put the Twill Boyfriend Shirt on display during an SNL monologue).
    — Stacia Datskovska, WWD, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The Matrix is the stone-cold classic, and Dark City has its devotees (Roger Ebert notable among them), but for me, Francis Lawrence’s directorial debut about a psychic consultant has always been the best distillation of this aesthetic.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
Definition of devotee
Noun
  • The Kansas City Chiefs tight end, 35, appeared to playfully flaunt his butt to bystanders while playing golf with Patrick Mahomes at the Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina, as seen in fan photos shared on X.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Football fans love the idea of the clean break, the fresh start, and the new era that is unlike anything that has come before.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025
Definition of fan
Noun
  • The film begins with the league’s sole enthusiast, Franny (Cliff Blake), settling onto the grass with his portable card table, his pocket binoculars, and his scorecard; slowly, the players begin to dribble onto the field.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
  • This attention to detail creates experiences that keep critics and food enthusiasts coming back for more.
    — Jill Barth, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of enthusiast
Noun
  • Dragon types, for example, get individual entries but all cultists are filed in the same entry.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The ongoing Escape From Tarkov event is moving at a rapid pace after launching a few days ago, with cultists invading all maps with some serious loot in their pockets.
    — Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of cultist
Noun
  • Tatlin scholarship is whispery on his time in Kyiv, for the excellent reason that Stalin’s minions torched most evidence of it.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • But the largest driving force behind the return-to-work mandates, suggest the early scholarship, is CEOs feeling lonely without minions.
    — Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2025
Definition of minion
Noun
  • The Founding Fathers knew of the fate of the 3,000 idolaters who prayed at the golden calf while Moses conversed with God on Mount Sinai, and of the money-changers driven from the Temple by Jesus.
    — Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2024
  • Throngs of idolaters gather just to watch the team buses arrive.
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2024
Definition of idolater
Noun
  • Back in Montana, every trip Jacob and company take to Bozeman and back is inevitably fraught with peril — if not instigated by dastardly rich guy Donald Whitfield (Timothy Dalton) and/or his henchman Banner Creighton (Jerome Flynn), then by the pitiless nature of extreme weather.
    — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2025
  • In Lynch’s festering neo-noir mystery from 1987, Hopper plays a chronic villain perpetually sipping from a tank of amyl nitrate and handing out hits as a way to manipulate his henchmen.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of henchman
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