Synonyms for flatter
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : flat-er |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈflæt ər |
Top 10 synonyms for flatter Other synonyms for the word flatter
- beslaver
- brownnose
- build up
- butter up
- cater to
- decorate
- do something for
- embellish
- enrich
- fawn
- finish
- get next to
- glorify
- go with
- grace
- grovel
- humor
- inveigle
- jolly
- lay it on thick
- massage
- oil
- ornament
- overpraise
- perfect
- play up to
- praise
- put in best light
- rub the right way
- salve
- sell
- set off
- show to advantage
- snow
- soft-soap
- soften
- spread it on
- stroke
- suck up to
- suit
- sweet-talk
- sweeten up
- toady
- wheedle
- work on
- work over
Définition of flatter
Origin :- early 13c., from Old French flater "to flatter" (13c.), originally "stroke with the hand, caress," from Frankish *flat "palm, flat of the hand" (see flat (adj.)). "[O]ne of many imitative verbs beginning with fl- and denoting unsteady or light, repeated movement" [Liberman]. Related: Flattered; flattering.
- verb compliment excessively
- verb complement, enhance
- Very well; she might flatter herself that she had for a mother a most famous hussy.
- Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
- His speech was not eloquent, nor did it flatter the Leopard Woman, but it was to the point.
- Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
- I do not give you all this account, my good Sir, to flatter you.
- Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns
- Does R—— flatter himself that his power over my heart is omnipotent?
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- I believe it's to flatter me you say this, for that song is my writing.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- I am really a student, you see, and flatter myself I am a man of science.
- Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr
- But she could not flatter herself he paid much attention to her remarks.
- Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- THE fox knows how to flatter, and how to play many cunning tricks.
- Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
- Steadily drearier grew the ocean, flatter all the heathen lands.
- Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
- I cannot speak of my own person, but my partial friends were too apt to flatter me.
- Extract from : « Beaux and Belles of England » by Mary Robinson
Antonyms for flatter
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