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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
flattering
adj 1: showing or representing to advantage; "a flattering
color" [ant: uncomplimentary, unflattering]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Flatter \Flat"ter\ (fl[a^]t"t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Flattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Flattering.] [OE. flateren,
cf. OD. flatteren; akin to G. flattern to flutter, Icel.
fla[eth]ra to fawn, flatter: cf. F. flatter. Cf. Flitter,
Flutter, Flattery.]
1. To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or
attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by
artful and interested commendation or attentions; to
blandish; to cajole; to wheedle.
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When I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered. --Shak.
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A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net
for his feet. --Prov. xxix.
5.
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Others he flattered by asking their advice.
--Prescott.
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2. To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but
sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.
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3. To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of;
as, his portrait flatters him.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Flattering \Flat"ter*ing\, a.
That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a
flattering speech.
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Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. --Shak.
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A flattering painter, who made it his care,
To draw men as they ought be, not as they are.
--Goldsmith.
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Thesaurus Results for flattering:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
abject, acclamatory, admiring, adulatory, appreciative, approbatory, backscratching, becoming, beggarly, bland, blandishing, blarneying, bootlicking, buttery, cajoling, commendatory, complimentary, courtierly, courtly, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, encomiastic, enhancing, eulogistic, fair-spoken, fawning, fine-spoken, footlicking, fulsome, gratifying, groveling, gushing, hangdog, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, ingratiating, insincere, insinuating, kind, laudatory, mealymouthed, obeisant, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, on bended knee, panegyric, parasitic, prostrate, regardful, respectful, slimy, slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, sniveling, soapy, soft-soaping, sponging, sugary, sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, truckling, unctuous, wheedling |
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