Words that rhyme with rippling

  • belittling
    adj 1: tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark" [syn: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting] n 1: a belittling comment [syn: denigration, belittling] 2: the act of belittling
  • bicycling
    n 1: riding a bicycle
  • crippling
    adj 1: that cripples or disables or incapacitates; "a crippling injury" [syn: crippling, disabling, incapacitating]
  • dribbling
    n 1: the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks [syn: dribble, dribbling]
  • fiddling
    adj 1: (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]
  • middling
    adv 1: to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers" [syn: reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably] [ant: immoderately, unreasonably] adj 1: lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best" [syn: average, fair, mediocre, middling] n 1: any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
  • niggling
    adj 1: (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]
  • piddling
    adj 1: (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]
  • sibling
    n 1: a person's brother or sister [syn: sibling, sib]
  • stripling
    n 1: a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [syn: adolescent, stripling, teenager, teen]
  • tripling
    n 1: increase by a factor of three
  • kipling
    n 1: English author of novels and poetry who was born in India (1865-1936) [syn: Kipling, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Rudyard Kipling]
  • giggling
  • jiggling
  • nibbling
  • pickling
  • quibbling
  • scribbling
  • stippling
  • tippling
  • trickling
  • twiddling
  • wiggling

See also rippling definition and rippling synonyms