Rhyme Dictionary
Rhymes with “Cunning”
/ˈkʌnɪŋ/
Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
♬78 rhyming words found
🎯 Perfect Rhymes for "Cunning"
28 wordsThese words rhyme exactly with "cunning" — same ending sound.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| stunning | 2 | noun | (informal) Exceptionally beautiful or attractive. |
| running | 2 | noun | The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason. |
| shunning | 2 | noun | The act by which something is shunned; avoidance. |
| woning | 2 | noun | (archaic) A place to live; a dwelling; a dwelling-place; an abode. |
| skinning | 2 | noun | The act of removing the skin, as for example from animals killed for meat, hides, and furs. |
| bunning | 2 | noun | (Australian Aboriginal) The echidna. |
| punning | 2 | noun | The action of the verb to pun. |
| twinning | 2 | noun | The act of producing twins. |
| tinning | 2 | noun | A covering or lining of tin. |
| overrunning | 4 | verb | (transitive) To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively. |
| sunning | 2 | verb | The star that is closest to the Earth. |
| shinning | 2 | verb | To strike with the shin. |
| outrunning | 3 | verb | (transitive) To run faster than. |
| tunning | 2 | verb | A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.) |
| funning | 2 | verb | Amusement, enjoyment or pleasure. |
| pinang | 2 | noun | A palm of the genus Nenga, endemic to Southeast Asia. |
| rerunning | 3 | verb | (transitive) To run again; to repeat. |
| wonning | 2 | The currency of Korea, worth 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in South Korea. | |
| outgunning | 3 | verb | — |
| anyone hung | 4 | — | |
| chinning | 2 | noun | Alternative form of Jinning (Taiwan) [A rural township in Kinmen County, Taiwan.] |
| dunning | 2 | noun | Attempt to collect a debt. |
| everyone hung | 4 | — | |
| gun hung | 2 | — | |
| gunning | 2 | noun | The act of firing a gun. |
| run ning | 2 | — | |
| someone hung | 3 | — | |
| sun hung | 2 | — |
🎵 Near Rhymes for "Cunning"
50 wordsThese words don't rhyme perfectly but share a similar sound — great for slant rhyme and song lyrics.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| forthcoming | 3 | noun | Willing to co-operate or provide information; candid, frank, responsive. |
| loving | 2 | noun | Expressing a large amount of love to other people; affectionate. |
| nothing | 2 | noun | Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance. |
| cutting | 2 | noun | (countable, uncountable) The action of the verb to cut. |
| coming | 2 | noun | The act of arriving; an arrival. |
| grunting | 2 | noun | Producing grunts. |
| rubbing | 2 | noun | An impression of an embossed or incised surface made by placing a piece of paper over it and rubbing with graphite, crayon or other coloring agent. |
| budding | 2 | noun | Beginning to develop. |
| bunting | 2 | noun | Strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag. |
| becoming | 3 | noun | pleasingly suitable; fit; congruous; beautiful |
| unbecoming | 4 | noun | Not flattering, attractive or appropriate. |
| flooding | 2 | noun | An act of flooding; a flood or gush. |
| hunting | 2 | noun | The act of finding and killing a wild animal, either for sport or with the intention of using its parts to make food, clothes, etc. |
| humming | 2 | noun | Making a hum sound. |
| funding | 2 | noun | Money provided as funds. |
| sucking | 2 | noun | An act of sucking. |
| fronting | 2 | noun | (syntax) The movement of a word of phrase to nearer the beginning of a sentence or clause than it would usually appear, often for emphasis. May also occur as part of the standard syntax of particular constructions (e.g. wh-fronting). |
| strutting | 2 | noun | The act of one who struts. |
| shoving | 2 | noun | The act of one who shoves. |
| cupping | 2 | noun | The taking of a small amount of a beverage such as tea or coffee into the mouth in order to taste it; a session where this is done. |
| drumming | 2 | noun | The act of beating a drum. |
| homecoming | 3 | noun | The act or event of returning home. |
| slugging | 2 | noun | (slang, neologism, cosmetics) The practice of smothering one's face with vaseline in order to moisturize it. |
| hugging | 2 | noun | The act of giving a hug. |
| tugging | 2 | noun | The action of something that tugs; a pull. |
| bluffing | 2 | noun | A bluff; a false expression of the strength of one's position in order to intimidate. |
| succumbing | 3 | verb | (intransitive) To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire. |
| cussing | 2 | noun | (US) The act of one who cusses, or uses bad language. |
| plumbing | 2 | noun | The pipes, together with the joints, tanks, stopcocks, taps, and other fixtures of a water, gas, or sewage system in a house or other building. |
| run in | 2 | verb | (transitive, informal, chiefly passive voice) To arrest; (especially) to track down and arrest. |
| ducking | 2 | noun | An instance of ducking down, e.g. to hide. |
| numbing | 2 | noun | That numbs. |
| plugging | 2 | noun | The insertion of an object, usually a sex toy, into the anus or vagina. |
| buzzing | 2 | noun | The sound produced by something that buzzes. |
| stunting | 2 | noun | (informal) The act of performing stunts or ostentatiously showing off. |
| rebutting | 3 | verb | To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it. |
| done in | 2 | — | |
| dubbing | 2 | noun | (film) The replacement of a voice part in a film or animation, particularly with a translation, revoicing. |
| mugging | 2 | noun | A quick violent robbery of a person, usually in a public place. |
| shutting | 2 | noun | The act by which something is shut. |
| summing | 2 | noun | The act or result of addition; a sum. |
| thumbing | 2 | noun | The act by which something is thumbed. |
| bumming | 2 | verb | (intransitive, colloquial) To stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond. |
| strumming | 2 | noun | The action of the verb to strum |
| fussing | 2 | noun | Excessive care; act of one who fusses. |
| mudding | 2 | noun | Participation in MUD games |
| cumming | 2 | noun | A city, the county seat of Forsyth County, Georgia, United States. |
| punting | 2 | noun | (football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground |
| second coming | 4 | noun | (Christianity) The prophesied return of Jesus Christ. |
| sun in | 2 | — |
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