Synonyms of the word

sycophant

• n. One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
• n. One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
• n. (obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.
• v. (transitive) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
• v. (transitive) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.

adulator

• n. One who lavishes excessive praises or flattery, one who adulates.

crawler

• n. (Australia, obsolete) A person who is abused, physically or verbally, and returns to the abuser a supplicant.
• n. (Britain, Australia, slang) A sycophant.
• n. A child who is able to creep using his hands and knees but is not able to walk.
• n. (sports) A crawl swimmer.
• n. A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
• n. A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as webpage links.

flatterer

• n. One who flatters.

lackey

• n. A footman, a liveried male servant.
• n. A fawning, servile follower; a lickspittle.
• v. (transitive) To attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To toady, play the flunky.

toady

• n. A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage.
• n. (archaic) A coarse, rustic woman.
• v. (intransitive, construed with to) To behave like a toady (to someone).