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What is another word for
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Adjective
Pleasing or gratifying
Full of praise and compliments
Enhancing someone's appearance
Characterized by approval
Full of (enthusiastic) praise or regard for someone or something
Stylish and fashionable
Suitable for a royal court
Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious
Containing much sugar
Noun
Instances of flattery
Verb
Present participle for to praise or compliment, typically excessively or insincerely
Present participle for to show to advantage
Present participle for to compliment someone, often insincerely and sometimes to win favour
Present participle for take pleasure in one's accomplishments or abilities
Present participle for to act in an obsequious way
Present participle for to persuade someone to do something
Present participle for to compliment someone, especially for an achievement
Present participle for speak or write effusively or with exaggerated enthusiasm
Present participle for seek as romantic partner
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Adjective
▲
Pleasing or gratifying
gratifying
pleasing
gladdening
honoring
US
honouring
UK
pleasurable
satisfying
cheering
satisfactory
friendly
good
helpful
advantageous
kindly
beneficial
benefic
beneficent
salutary
benignant
profitable
appropriate
lucky
wholesome
happy
worthy
fair
handy
fit
pleasureful
providential
benign
well-timed
opportune
seasonable
welcome
healthful
reassuring
pleasant
constructive
fortunate
nice
toward
convenient
timely
suitable
prosperous
useful
favourable
UK
favorable
US
full of promise
more ❯
“It is very
flattering
and an honour to have a portrait that will hang with such distinguished people.”
Adjective
▲
Full of praise and compliments
complimentary
fawning
ingratiating
sugary
admiring
applauding
appreciative
commending
favorable
US
favourable
UK
honeyed
honey-tongued
obsequious
praising
blarneying
cajoling
flannelling
silver-tongued
sycophantic
bootlicking
crawling
creeping
fulsome
gratifying
oily
oleaginous
servile
soft-soaping
sweet-talking
unctuous
adulatory
encomiastic
encomiastical
laudatory
smarmy
smooth
toadyish
toadying
deferential
grovelling
UK
slimy
humble
groveling
US
sucky
slick
soapy
saccharine
cringing
greasy
subservient
Uriah Heepish
gushing
suave
soft
charming
serving
silken
brown-nosing
glib
smooth-tongued
smooth-talking
disarming
slavish
abject
insincere
submissive
creepy
gushy
insinuating
saponaceous
plausible
kowtowing
mealy-mouthed
insinuative
truckling
arse-licking
compliant
ass-kissing
persuasive
prostrate
buttery
smug
ingratiatory
arse-kissing
cloying
nauseating
sickening
wheedling
slippery
suckholing
hypocritical
hagiographical
hagiographic
timeserving
brownnosing
sniveling
US
parasitic
spineless
effusive
insinuatory
suggestive
parasitical
apple-polishing
bowing and scraping
snivelling
UK
smooth-spoken
eloquent
self-effacing
winsome
winning
endearing
supple
coaxing
bland
reptilian
sycophantish
sugarcoated
sweet
pleasing
menial
subordinate
complacent
crouching
reverential
respectful
enslaved
subject
stipendiary
sneaking
beggarly
compliable
obeisant
credible
sweet-sounding
all over someone
sycophant
scraping
bowing
cowering
silky
fast-talking
convincing
hard to resist
fluent
articulate
grandiloquent
oratorical
well-spoken
urbane
phoney
UK
creamy
pinguid
phony
US
self-abasing
forelock-tugging
more ❯
“However, he was, of course, bound by protocol to make a few
flattering
comments about this.”
Adjective
▲
Enhancing someone's appearance
becoming
enhancing
appropriate
embellishing
befitting
effective
gracing
kind
ornamenting
well-chosen
pretty
attractive
stylish
elegant
handsome
fetching
comely
tasteful
lovely
chic
presentable
neat
agreeable
fashionable
graceful
nice
pleasant
cute
beautiful
charming
on fleek
refined
discriminating
cultured
harmonious
fastidious
smart
cultivated
artistic
exquisite
pleasing
restrained
delicate
fit
sensitive
polished
fitting
classy
fine
stately
courtly
majestic
aesthetic
UK
urbane
splendiferous
spiffy
subdued
posh
uptown
esthetic
US
sophisticated
classical
pure
in good taste
plush
precise
quiet
chaste
unaffected
unobtrusive
gratifying
rich
snazzy
discerning
swank
aesthetically pleasing
more ❯
“But they definitely don't enhance a woman's silhouette, so as a
flattering
trouser option cargo pants are a distinctly poor choice.”
Adjective
▲
Characterized by approval
becoming
complimentary
favourable
UK
favorable
US
kind
laudatory
suitable
sympathetic
appreciative
approving
commendatory
admiring
positive
approbatory
panegyrical
good
adulatory
applauding
laudative
acclamatory
friendly
congratulatory
praiseful
eulogistic
respectful
praising
glowing
encomiastic
celebratory
approbative
rave
encomiastical
recommendatory
adoring
enthusiastic
idolizing
US
plauditory
celebrating
gracious
raving
commending
fawning
rapturous
eulogizing
US
fulsome
idolising
UK
sycophantic
eulogising
UK
full of praise
extolling
deferential
pleased
supportive
panegyric
glorifying
appreciating
encouraging
agreeable
worshipful
worshipping
UK
worshiping
US
acclaiming
esteeming
condign
receptive
satisfied
generous
well-disposed
fine
excellent
keen
great
supreme
high
honeyed
saccharine
sugary
well-wishing
polite
courtly
highly favourable
civil
unctuous
honoring
US
honouring
UK
fair-spoken
highly favorable
with high praise
with highest recommendation
commendable
accepting
advisory
warm
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Full of (enthusiastic) praise or regard for someone or something
glowing
commendatory
complimentary
adulatory
panegyrical
eulogistic
laudatory
admiring
acclamatory
appreciative
rapturous
ecstatic
praising
rhapsodic
rave
enthusiastic
fulsome
congratulatory
laudative
encomiastical
lionising
UK
lionizing
US
highly favourable
highly complimentary
full of praise
very happy
encomiastic
fawning
unctuous
sycophantic
saccharine
ingratiating
gushing
gushy
cloying
sugary
nauseating
honeyed
hagiographical
soapy
oily
oleaginous
hagiographic
smarmy
favourable
UK
approving
favorable
US
worshipping
UK
extravagant
excessive
overdone
inordinate
servile
worshipful
reverential
blandishing
obsequious
lavish
immoderate
profuse
ample
generous
extensive
liberal
bootlicking
over-appreciative
sickening
effusive
slavish
insincere
buttery
OTT
gross
magniloquent
hypocritical
glib
coarse
bombastic
slick
suave
grandiloquent
overgenerous
slimy
smooth
wheedling
mealy-mouthed
canting
sanctimonious
worshiping
US
toadying
over the top
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Stylish and fashionable
dashing
smart
stylish
chic
crisp
dapper
debonair
elegant
spruce
trim
attractive
fancy
fashionable
high-fashion
modish
tasteful
understated
voguish
contemporary
designer
modern
trendy
ultra-modern
well dressed
well groomed
classy
hip
in
natty
now
sharp
smartly dressed
snappy
snazzy
well turned out
dressy
fly
in vogue
kicky
nifty
sassy
spiffy
swish
tony
swagger
trig
up to date
with it
on fleek
up to the minute
bang up to date
as if one had just stepped out of a bandbox
sophisticated
exclusive
new
happening
swell
cool
supercool
up-to-date
fresh
culty
schmick
mod
au courant
dap
swanky
current
faddish
with-it
chichi
well-groomed
du jour
clean
well-dressed
swank
a la mode
latest thing
last word
well turned-out
well put together
kicking
suave
polished
fine
dressed to kill
ritzy
slick
rakish
upscale
beautiful
refined
neat
groovy
urbane
charming
high-class
courtly
jaunty
genteel
trendsetting
posh
sleek
in fashion
uptown
fashionably dressed
dignified
up-to-the-minute
latest
cultured
all the rage
cultivated
lovely
handsome
graceful
majestic
stately
plush
dainty
glamorous
ostentatious
swinging
besuited
jazzy
big
funky
showy
in style
presentable
all the go
in-thing
smooth
discerning
groomed
distinguished
luxurious
popular
opulent
sumptuous
exquisite
ornate
comely
grand
nice
flashy
well-bred
spiff
prim
select
hot
superior
sporty
well-turned-out
stunning
flash
well-presented
vogue
prevailing
usual
high-toned
clean-cut
dressed to the nines
customary
de rigueur
in thing
favoured
UK
à la mode
favored
US
a go-go
dressed to the teeth
newfangled
well-liked
poised
appealing
formal
elaborate
upmarket
plushy
with good taste
dicty
expensive
last-word
in good taste
with style
dress
bling
stylin'
fancy-pants
excellent
distinctive
first-class
pretentious
steezy
modernistic
spivvy
dandy
spiffing
spick and span
well-tailored
soigné
spiffed-up
dolled up
gorgeous
def
pop
faddy
crowd-pleasing
hep
large
downtown
popularized
US
favorite
US
red-hot
turned-on
tidy
snug
bandbox
nobby
doggy
spry
nimble
brisk
the new
massive
cutting-edge
favourite
UK
popularised
UK
splashy
pizazzy
pizzazzy
in the mainstream
dressed up
looking sharp
class
neat and tidy
flamboyant
gay
bright
loud
colorful
US
clever
turned out
ingenious
crucial
in high feather
colourful
UK
dressed to nines
styleworthy
foxy
spruced up
courteous
civil
self-possessed
confident
gracious
self-assured
chivalrous
gentlemanly
gallant
artistic
well mannered
well bred
svelte
classic
gentle
affable
mannerly
delicate
cheerful
happy
casual
nonchalant
detached
buoyant
sprightly
pleasant
aesthetic
UK
choice
noble
decorous
rare
ornamented
affected
august
recherche
aristocratic
esthetic
US
overdone
stylized
well-designed
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Suitable for a royal court
courtly
elegant
refined
stately
aristocratic
ceremonious
chivalrous
civil
cultivated
decorous
dignified
formal
gallant
polite
sophisticated
stylish
urbane
debonair
suave
affable
civilised
UK
civilized
US
classy
courteous
cultured
fine
genteel
gentlemanly
graceful
gracious
handsome
honorable
US
honourable
UK
ladylike
majestic
obliging
polished
tasteful
adulatory
august
complimentary
conventional
couth
gentle
highbred
high-bred
imposing
lofty
preux
prim
proper
studied
well bred
well mannered
mannerly
well-bred
well-mannered
respectable
respectful
distinguished
seemly
noble
correct
considerate
charming
decent
nice
grand
solemn
swanky
posh
plush
thoughtful
regal
diplomatic
exquisite
fashionable
ceremonial
punctilious
well-behaved
befitting
smart
starchy
attentive
tactful
cool
becoming
opulent
smooth
deferential
sumptuous
de rigueur
proud
magnificent
discerning
chic
staid
dashing
impressive
self-possessed
snazzy
official
svelte
superior
royal
pleasant
genial
distingué
well behaved
luxurious
imperial
accomplished
beautiful
precise
fancy
lordly
traditional
poised
kingly
ritzy
reverential
fitting
fit
affected
modish
attractive
glib
stilted
portly
sedate
slick
stiff
sharp
aesthetic
UK
spiffy
cordial
restrained
composed
comely
esthetic
US
stiff-necked
politic
ritual
ritualistic
princely
modest
dutiful
snobbish
orthodox
worldly
worldly-wise
exalted
discriminating
suitable
artistic
ornate
fastidious
sensitive
dainty
appropriate
reserved
accommodating
grandiose
well-born
upright
imperious
snappy
lovely
expensive
venerable
reverent
rich
delicate
pompous
highbrow
developed
discreet
right
smooth-tongued
schmick
splendiferous
swish
pleasing
moral
ostentatious
stylized
ingratiating
unctuous
bland
select
kind
complaisant
swank
silver-tongued
oily
conforming
done
just so
in good taste
media-savvy
obeisant
uptown
soft-spoken
impeccable
high-class
on fleek
comme il faut
a la mode
well brought up
protective
elaborate
lavish
educated
haughty
appealing
gentlemanlike
flashy
smooth-talking
reputable
finished
agreeable
quality
flash
cavalier
privileged
aloof
splendid
well-brought-up
womanly
cosmopolitan
soft
sociable
fulsome
showy
magnanimous
with good taste
wellmannered
amicable
harmonious
standard
portentous
resplendent
gorgeous
costly
superb
glorious
well brought-up
approved
accepted
public
momentous
important
highborn
blue-blooded
patrician
customary
apt
usual
high fashion
upmarket
upscale
plushy
exclusive
persuasive
liturgical
state
kosher
OK
demure
pretty
balanced
metropolitan
in
tony
trendy
dicty
mod
taught
trained
upper-crust
acceptable
careful
okay
smarmy
together
servile
set
prescribed
eloquent
quiet
unobtrusive
pure
chaste
unaffected
gratifying
classical
subdued
facile
collected
meet
good
seasonable
pretentious
confined
la-di-da
intolerant
patronizing
US
patronising
UK
artificial
hollow
prudish
snooty
priggish
straitlaced
precious
prissy
condescending
stuffy
possessed
unruffled
silky
sacramental
celebratory
right stuff
fit for a king
aesthetically pleasing
in vogue
high-toned
regardful
equable
coolheaded
elevated
confident
self-assured
au fait
well-spoken
serious
eminent
well spoken
mannered
self-composed
articulate
classic
sombre
UK
magisterial
respected
highfalutin'
great
somber
US
grave
nifty
humble
solicitous
trim
dapper
spruce
towering
subservient
fly
evolved
airy
close
progressive
advanced
improved
forward
high
rigorous
accurate
pinpoint
spot-on
late
higher
mathematical
regarding
respecting
standing
choice
submissive
obedient
admiring
deferent
self-respecting
trig
well groomed
well dressed
sublime
rare
ornamented
duteous
venerating
casual
nonchalant
detached
buoyant
well-groomed
well turned out
cheerful
jaunty
happy
sprightly
overdone
recherche
high-flown
high-brow
high-minded
experienced
exact
appreciative
well-designed
well-dressed
rigid
deliberate
measured
scrupulous
self-effacing
slow-moving
subtle
thin
ethereal
light
gossamer
diaphanous
cute
fragile
enlightened
simple
flowing
understated
decorative
neat
ornamental
moving
expressive
nuanced
creative
sheer
intricate
imaginative
bonny
fair
fetching
recherché
gossamery
insubstantial
gauzy
enhancing
frail
lacy
transparent
knowledgeable
well-made
filmy
erudite
good-looking
tolerant
intelligent
comfortable
uncluttered
streamlined
well-off
divine
striking
aerodynamic
perfected
deluxe
zooty
exotic
presentable
lush
sleek
symmetrical
humane
good mannered
arcane
far-fetched
esoteric
luxuriant
extravagant
balletic
lithe
austere
plain
emotional
well-proportioned
Augustan
first-class
stylistic
stunning
knockout
taking
goodly
likely
bonnie
drop-dead
lovesome
beauteous
ravishing
sightly
filigree
clever
flowy
well-chosen
musical
pictorial
ideal
rhythmical
stimulating
dramatic
picturesque
beautifying
frilly
open
tenuous
slight
petite
figurative
symbolic
flowery
handy
ingenious
sartorial
slim
scholarly
intellectual
jet-set
citified
blasé
meshy
fairy
fluffy
aerial
rarefied
dinky
mondaine
knowing
mature
intangible
impalpable
shadowy
world-weary
well-favored
well-informed
worldly wise
been around
perceptive
profound
deep
poetic
insightful
lacelike
net
lace-like
patterned
netlike
net-like
otherworldly
ghostly
waiflike
vaporous
wraithlike
eerie
unworldly
vapory
gaseous
elite
upper-class
sweet
darling
deft
tender
delightful
feeble
well-read
artistically aware
learned
understanding
liberal
up-to-date
lettered
savant
blue-stocking
intellectually aware
able
distingue
well-educated
traveled
US
arty
well informed
well read
versed
well educated
literary
informed
literate
well born
titled
high-born
wellborn
travelled
UK
full of feeling
detailed
au courant
wispy
upper crust
Brahmin
ennobled
aristocratical
top-drawer
flimsy
papery
chiffony
floaty
feathery
blue
silk-stocking
queenly
silver-spoon
knightly
translucent
gauzelike
threadlike
shimmering
born with a silver spoon in your mouth
fine-grained
fine-spun
wafer-thin
see-through
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious
specious
deceptive
fallacious
misleading
casuistic
false
sophistic
unsound
beguiling
deceitful
deceiving
deluding
delusive
delusory
plausible
sophistical
apparent
baseless
bogus
captious
colorable
credible
empty
erroneous
hollow
idle
illogical
inaccurate
incorrect
insincere
likely
meretricious
nugatory
ostensible
ostentatious
phoney
UK
phony
US
presumable
presumptive
pretentious
probable
seeming
sham
sophisticated
spurious
unfounded
untrue
vain
wrong
seemingly correct
apparently right
plausible but wrong
invalid
fabricated
mistaken
flawed
fake
illusory
mock
unreal
unreliable
inexact
fraudulent
misguided
distorted
counterfeit
faulty
unsubstantiated
fictitious
pseudo
untruthful
groundless
artificial
imaginary
unsupported
imprecise
without foundation
off
flimsy
invented
defective
weak
unreasonable
manufactured
factitious
trumped-up
ersatz
pretend
ill-founded
faked
concocted
trumped up
iffy
shaky
imitation
simulated
questionable
in error
unproven
ungrounded
unjustifiable
dodgy
unjustified
chimerical
unwarranted
counterfactual
implausible
illusive
foundationless
uncorroborated
synthetic
irrational
apocryphal
untenable
wide of the mark
forged
plastic
without basis
contrived
out
made up
substitute
feigned
pretended
tenuous
off beam
full of holes
fishy
fanciful
unnatural
falsified
dummy
way off
glib
indefensible
insupportable
unconvincing
superficial
dubious
off target
imagined
dishonest
fallible
fictional
mythical
suspect
unconfirmed
misrepresentative
made-up
visionary
fantastic
misinformed
fabulous
improper
not genuine
reasonless
put-on
nonvalid
untrustworthy
dicey
uncalled-for
gratuitous
bottomless
ambiguous
economical with the truth
off-target
off-base
not exact
not accurate
unsustainable
unwarrantable
off base
way out
doubtful
disingenuous
make-believe
illusionary
inexcusable
unforgivable
assumed
untested
unverified
unattested
unpardonable
chancy
rocky
disreputable
risky
strained
forced
mechanical
affected
conjectural
notional
chimeric
imperfect
mad
faux
lying
undependable
unreasoned
truthless
uncertain
speculative
ideal
discrepant
colored
US
absurd
unauthentic
inexpiable
snide
queer
inauthentic
coloured
UK
faithless
cod
imitative
man-made
unacceptable
senseless
preposterous
cooked-up
flakey
US
unstable
flaky
UK
adulterine
reproduction
mimic
mythological
ungenuine
without justification
abroad
replica
supposititious
open to doubt
askew
way off beam
falsie
all wet
open to question
off-beam
not backed up by evidence
hyped up
wide
way off-beam
deluded
unarguable
undefendable
refutable
inadmissible
cooked up
hallucinatory
chemical
cast
unprovoked
fakey
confusing
unfitting
impostrous
evasive
unfactual
nonfactual
delusional
unauthorized
US
misconceived
without substantiation
without merit
off the mark
contrary to fact
amiss
fancied
non-existent
manmade
tricky
nonrational
illegitimate
unreasoning
insubstantial
quixotic
copy
pirated
casuistical
not trustworthy
so-called
nonnatural
shallow
duplicate
quasi
unstraightforward
unbacked
inconsequent
inconsequential
uncalled for
not backed up
causeless
unfaithful
careless
wild
non-natural
facsimile
Barmecidal
Barmecide
whimsical
fictive
semblant
suppositious
pat
awry
cunning
devious
cheating
pretending
copycat
copied
unsubstantial
incongruous
adrift
mendacious
engineered
unassured
unsure
without cause
unauthorised
UK
without reason
counterfeited
hypocritical
equivocal
garbled
unoriginal
crooked
dud
pinchbeck
erratic
cynical
without explanation
way-out
not true
way-off
doesn't wash
not right
perplexing
bewildering
mistakable
demagogic
catchy
distracting
confounding
puzzling
erring
wrong number
all off
devised
fantasied
phantom
mythic
phantasmal
fantastical
imaginal
phantasmic
arbitrary
blue sky
pipe dream
fluffed
dissimulating
dissembling
not precise
out of line
astray
on the wrong track
not working
out of commission
at fault
misfigured
goofed
misconstrued
mishandled
miscalculated
treacherous
insignificant
prepared
bad
double-dealing
hollow-hearted
devoid of validity
two-faced
slick
framed
bum
pirate
bent
laboured
UK
labored
US
mannered
pseud
quasi-
stilted
put on
overdone
stiff
worthless
model
studied
trick
exaggerated
actorly
toy
improvised
wooden
not kosher
hokey
self-conscious
phony-baloney
professed
purported
overripe
fantasy
Hollywood
plant
brummagem
crock
fantasized
US
dream
duplicitous
pseudo-
knock-off
dreamed-up
adopted
won't fly
soft shell
avowed
alleged
theatrical
supposed
underhand
pseudonymous
overworked
ham
hammy
crafty
guileful
shady
sharp
unspontaneous
quack
virtual
hoax
play-play
shifty
unscrupulous
illegal
imposturous
imitated
constrained
unprincipled
would-be
fast
underhanded
rogue
fantasised
UK
representative
phoney-baloney
bootlegged
rehearsed
legendary
unauthenticated
unqualified
repro
surface
uncanonical
campy
miniature
derivative
overblown
elaborate
planned
debatable
wannabe
self-styled
made
makeshift
constructed
apish
not what it is cracked up to be
low-grade
low-quality
poor-quality
shoddy
inferior
ostensive
semi-
nominal
allonymous
experimental
unsatisfactory
substandard
adulterated
mealymouthed
posed
near
reported
not real
not legit
terminologically inexact
voulu
manipulated
far-fetched
fixed
recherche
staged
lookalike
gingerbread
posey
as it were
mock-up
conceited
melodramatic
affectated
awkward
playacting
fraud
charlatan
bluffing
shammed
masked
in name only
covered
concealed
dissimulated
not the case
knock off
to all intents and purposes
sly
sneaky
scheming
null
stagy
overly planned
perfidious
Machiavellian
rigid
inflexible
bound
begrudging
coercive
grudging
binding
conscripted
slave
stringent
forcible
null and void
void
nonbinding
inoperative
subtle
slippery
foxy
wreck
uptight
taut
farfetched
wired
put
unglued
tight
choked
slim
not binding
uncollectible
double-faced
Punic
false-hearted
in a state
hard put
nervous wreck
strung out
at end of one's rope
insidious
rascal
roguish
designing
serpentine
oblique
astucious
indirect
wily
acted
swindling
criminal
corrupt
illicit
dishonourable
UK
unlawful
Janus-faced
defrauding
unfair
dirty
unjust
unethical
shonky
knavish
bamboozling
dishonorable
US
against the law
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Containing much sugar
sugary
sweet
sugared
sickly
oversweet
sticky
candied
glace
honeyed
pleasant
sacchariferous
sweetened
sickly sweet
too sweet
saccharine
cloying
treacly
sugarcoated
syrupy
sweet-flavored
sickly-sweet
dulcet
glacé
sugar-coated
iced
glazed
nectarous
like candy
candy-coated
toothsome
like honey
preserved
crystallized
US
crystallised
UK
Noun
▲
Instances of flattery
flattery
soft sawder
blarney
blandishments
flannel
wheedling
sweet talk
cajolery
soft soap
honeyed words
adulation
fawning
obsequiousness
compliments
praise
servility
blandishment
simpering
sycophancy
soft-soap
admiration
sweet-talk
overpraise
fulsomeness
taffy
toadying
arse-licking
toadyism
spiel
incense
butter
puffery
arse-kissing
gallantry
brown-nosing
encomium
flummery
unctuousness
eulogy
jive
laudation
hokum
gratification
snow
applause
commendation
plaudits
eyewash
mush
truckling
palaver
bootlicking
smoke
ingratiation
approbation
stroke
ass-kissing
laud
tribute
buttering up
cosying up
false praise
weasel words
currying favour
fine words
soft words
snow job
pats on the back
pretty speech
persuasion
coaxing
inveiglement
beguilement
guyver
arm-twisting
sweet-talking
soft-soaping
glozing
enticement
inveigling
cajolement
suasion
lip salve
smooth talk
smoodging
reverence
grovelling
UK
adoration
groveling
US
worship
deference
idolization
glorification
smarm
veneration
oil
exaltation
submissiveness
awe
cuddling up
ego massage
charm offensive
worshiping
US
cringing
worshipping
UK
smarminess
slavishness
brownnosing
sucking up
allurement
sweet words
ingratiating
exaggeration
compliance
margarine
nobbling
sweet nothings
fair words
insincere flattery
shortening
ghee
oleo
spread
charm
cobblers
honey
kowtowing
wonderment
wonder
a line
crawling
creeping
infatuation
marveling
US
subservience
buildup
bowing and scraping
abjection
self-abasement
pumping up
puff
marvelling
UK
meanness
oiliness
sliminess
humility
apple-polishing
cravenness
baseness
abjectness
rubbish
guff
claptrap
garbage
nonsense
excessive deference
respect
liquid soap
fluid soap
semifluid soap
hero-worship
admiring
lionizing
US
lionization
US
idolizing
US
glory
homage
honour
UK
devotion
honor
US
idolatry
eulogies
high regard
tributes
praising
accolades
deification
magnifying
magnification
eulogiums
lionising
UK
lionisation
UK
idolising
UK
hero worship
extravagant flattery
audation
servile flattery
fulsome praise
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to praise or compliment, typically excessively or insincerely
complimenting
praising
blarneying
cajoling
humouring
UK
soft-soaping
sweet-talking
flanneling
flannelling
admiring
commending
puffing
blandishing
courting
adulating
belauding
buttering up
fawning
hero-worshipping
honeying
massaging
overpraising
stroking
wheedling
expressing admiration for
fawning on
inveigling
lauding
pandering to
panegyrizing
paying tribute to
beslavering
bootlicking
brownnosing
charming
conning
crawling to
creeping to
glorifying
grovelling
UK
groveling
US
humoring
US
jollying
making much of
oiling
paying blandishments to
paying court to
playing up to
salving
selling
snowing
softening
sucking up to
toadying
waxing lyrical about
laying it on thick
saying nice things about
building up
catering to
complimenting excessively
falling all over
sweetening up
working on
working over
getting next to
spreading it on
laying it on with a trowel
rubbing the right way
brown-nosing
revering
adoring
worshipping
UK
worshiping
US
elevating
putting on a pedestal
kissing one's feet
fawning over
gushing over
indulging
spoiling
pampering
cosseting
lionizing
US
mollycoddling
puffing up
soothing
lionising
UK
smooth-talking
buttering up to
gushing
babying
petting
patting
fussing over
stroking one's ego
exalting
fawning upon
roosing
ingratiating oneself with
venerating
making a fuss of
raving over
accommodating
mollifying
gratifying
prizing
treasuring
overindulging
coddling
bowing to
yielding to
placating
satisfying
nurturing
loving
cherishing
idolizing
US
giving in to
complying with
giving way to
adapting to
doting
idolising
UK
going along with
holding dear
lavishing affection on
more ❯
“He then went on to
flatter
them further by complimenting their car parks.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to show to advantage
becoming
enhancing
suiting
embellishing
gracing
ornamenting
befitting
adorning
beautifying
complementing
decorating
enriching
finishing
perfecting
setting off
going well with
looking good on
looking right on
going with
showing to advantage
doing something for
putting in best light
enhancing the appearance of
looking attractive on
fitting
behoving
matching
agreeing with
harmonizing with
garnishing
heightening
displaying
behooving
augmenting
according with
belonging to
going together
showing off
making handsome
supplementing
adding to
boosting
improving
integrating with
trimming
prettying
bedecking
festooning
equipping
bedizening
furbelowing
accenting
decking
accessorising
UK
dressing up
accessorizing
US
prettying up
adding on
decking out
adding ornament
more ❯
“Try the following styles, proven to
flatter
your body type.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to compliment someone, often insincerely and sometimes to win favour
gratifying
honoring
US
honouring
UK
pleasing
delighting
gladdening
giving pleasure to
making someone glad
tickling pink
making someone pleased
fulfilling
enthralling
satiating
sating
quenching
indulging
contenting
filling
humoring
US
serving
slaking
meeting
suiting
feeding
comforting
obliging
cheering
pleasuring
feasting
accommodating
enlivening
elating
satisficing
surfeiting
gladding
warming
amusing
exhilarating
gassing
cloying
humouring
UK
satisfying
refreshing
agreeing with
making content
capturing
providing for
hitting the spot
catering to
captivating
making someone feel good
selling
pandering to
entertaining
bucking up
making merry
doing the trick
rejoicing
giving a buzz
brightening up
filling the bill
making happy
giving someone a kick
animating
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for take pleasure in one's accomplishments or abilities
piquing
pluming
priding
exulting
congratulating
vaunting
felicitating
prancing
swelling
gasconading
preening
crowing about
swaggering
strutting
presuming
boasting about
bragging about
flattering oneself
reveling in
glorying in
holding head high
puffing up
bragging
overbearing
crowing
boasting
Verb
▲
Present participle for to act in an obsequious way
toadying
fawning
grovelling
UK
groveling
US
kowtowing
truckling
bootlicking
crawling
brownnosing
creeping
courting
cringing
wooing
fussing
cajoling
stroking
massaging
oiling
brown-nosing
buttering up
sucking up to
curry favoring with
curry favouring with
apple-polishing
ingratiating oneself with
fawning on
dancing attendance on
playing up to
falling all over
pandering to
making up to
sucking up
bowing and scraping
truckling to
kowtowing to
creeping to
grovelling to
crawling to
abasing oneself to
demeaning oneself to
rubbing up the right way
keeping someone sweet
bowing and scrape to
honeying up
kissing-up
paying court
laying it on
licking someone's boots
kissing one's feet
scratching one's back
prostrating oneself to
falling on one's knees
kissing the feet of
currying favour
curry favoring
blandishing
soft-soaping
sweet-talking
pandering
toadying to
cowering
ingratiating yourself
stooping
prostrating oneself
paying court to
fawning over
crouching
kneeling
humbling oneself
abasing yourself
smoodging to
kisses up to
seeking the favour of
trying to get on the good side of
getting on the right side of
getting round
submitting
yielding
deferring
giving in
bending
quailing
knuckling under
abasing oneself before
bowing
behaving obsequiously
wheedling
snowing
cultivating
ingratiating
catering to
eating dirt
eating crow
laying it on thick
cozying up
deferring to
getting in with
trying to win over
back-scratching
conceding
giving way
bending the knee
smoodging
making up
winning the favor of
playing up
winning over
folding
prostrating
fawning upon
submitting to
soaping
kissing someone's feet
eulogizing
US
praising
saying uncle
caving in
playing the game
softening up
going along with
toing the mark
persuading
humoring
US
cringing before
grovelling before
sniveling
US
revering
pampering
imploring
snivelling
UK
coaxing
genuflecting
humouring
UK
lying down and rolling over
puffing
adulating
smarming around
inviting
scraping
jollying
falling over oneself for
cottoning
debasing
slavering
praising to excess
eulogising
UK
abasing
honeying
overpraising
inveigling
belauding
blarneying
captivating
charming
insinuating oneself
seeking favor
handing a line
attracting
bowing and scrape before
singing the praises of
praising to the skies
building up
prevailing on
talking into
spreading it on
softening
hero-worshipping
working on
getting in good with
getting on the good side of
laying it on with a trowel
buddying up
caving in to
showing respect for
making much of
bowing to
demeaning oneself
eating humble pie
humiliating yourself
prostrating oneself before
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to persuade someone to do something
coaxing
persuading
cajoling
inveigling
wheedling
enticing
influencing
tempting
luring
inducing
beguiling
seducing
urging
alluring
charming
blarneying
blandishing
wooing
encouraging
getting
decoying
maneuvering
US
manoeuvring
UK
palavering
pressing
conning
hooking
wangling
worming
bartering
importuning
jawboning
pestering
plaguing
soothing
teasing
sweet-talking
prevailing on
soft-soaping
winning over
talking into
prevailing upon
arguing into
getting round
buttering up
working on
arm-twisting
coming on
talking someone into something
roping in
twisting one's arm
swaying
bringing round
soaping
snowing
oiling
bantering
sweetening up
getting around
massaging
stroking
spreading it on
softening up
working over
honeying
playing up to
laying it on thick
flannelling
flanneling
fawning
ingratiating
caressing
toadying
talking
pandering to
sweet talking
overdoing it
drawing
courting
brownnosing
entrapping
tantalizing
US
deceiving
jollying
pushing
deluding
softening
misleading
duping
crowding
bootlicking
convincing
making
prodding
tantalising
UK
pressuring
arguing
reasoning
coercing
pressurizing
US
smooth-talking
building up
finagling
pressurising
UK
kowtowing
licking someone's boots
getting next to
making up to
sucking up to
handing a line
laying it on
bringing pressure to bear on
rubbing the right way
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to compliment someone, especially for an achievement
congratulating
praising
complimenting
commending
applauding
acclaiming
saluting
honouring
UK
lauding
extolling
honoring
US
eulogising
UK
eulogizing
US
cheering
ballyhooing
panegyrizing
emblazoning
felicitating
boosting
hugging
stroking
acknowledging
blessing
singing the praises of
speaking highly of
paying tribute to
heaping praise on
expressing admiration for
throwing bouquets at
waxing lyrical about
bigging up
making much of
speaking well of
saying nice things about
bigging something up
crying up
cracking someone up
cracking up
handing it to
hearing it for
giving bouquet
giving regards
rejoicing with
patting on back
wishing happy returns
wishing one well
giving a big cigar
wishing joy to
celebrating
glorifying
raving about
exalting
hailing
admiring
hymning
praising to the skies
touting
magnifying
going into raptures about
going into raptures over
rhapsodizing over
approving
welcoming
lionizing
US
recommending
toasting
accrediting
venerating
revering
adoring
raving
pushing
rooting
lionising
UK
praising enthusiastically
resounding
caroling
US
carolling
UK
puffing up
approving of
idolizing
US
giving a posy
giving a bouquet
raving over
enthusing over
gushing about
enthusing about
rhapsodizing about
paying homage to
gushing over
worshipping
UK
worshiping
US
idolising
UK
expressing delight over
going on about
going wild about
waxing lyrical
clapping
building up
reverencing
singing paeans to
putting on a pedestal
rhapsodizing
US
singing
expressing approval of
vaunting
adulating
singing praises
rhapsodising
UK
appreciating
endorsing
aggrandizing
giving approval
giving kudos
giving it up for
belauding
commemorating
bragging about
giving a boost to
taking one's hat off to
paying respects
singing praises of
taking off hat to
esteeming
deifying
respecting
recognizing
US
recognising
UK
valuing
loving
sanctifying
proclaiming
dignifying
looking up to
canonizing
US
immortalizing
US
apotheosizing
holding in high regard
thinking highly of
distinguishing
hallowing
canonising
UK
immortalising
UK
favouring
UK
favoring
US
ennobling
elevating
holding in awe
enshrining
cherishing
praying to
hero-worshipping
treasuring
regarding
memorializing
US
sanctioning
giving recognition to
bowing down to
beatifying
crediting
offering prayers to
singing praises to
memorialising
UK
prizing
paying respects to
holding in high esteem
looking on with favour
giving thanks to
holding in esteem
holding dear
regarding highly
publicizing
US
gushing
idealizing
US
encouraging
consecrating
publicising
UK
solemnizing
US
lifting up
advocating
adorning
idealising
UK
raising
signalizing
US
enthroning
signalising
UK
effusing
transfiguring
uprearing
haloing
erecting
holding sacred
fussing
thanking
slobbering
enthusing
drooling
sounding the praises of
solemnising
UK
mentioning
liking
effervescing
offering
plugging
considering
putting up
marveling at
rating
rating highly
thinking much of
having a high opinion of
thinking the world of
having a high regard for
holding in respect
expressing admiration of
holding high
publishing
trumpeting
hurrahing
showing appreciation for
celebritizing
hurraying
countenancing
building
showing appreciation of
affirming
upholding
observing
enskying
citing
mobbing
remembering
feting
keeping
showing gratitude to
bestowing honour on
illuminating
mythifying
giving praise to
divinizing
rooting for
thinking of
intensifying
subliming
lifting
enhancing
making famous
marking
holding in regard
apprising
augmenting
standing in awe of
embracing
making a fuss over
making a fuss of
showing respect
expressing approval for
wondering at
holding in the highest regard
thinking a lot of
relishing
valuing highly
extolling the virtues of
attaching importance to
promoting
glamorizing
US
increasing
rolling out the red carpet
setting great store by
setting store by
doting on
bowing down before
bubbling over
setting on a pedestal
setting on pedestal
romanticizing
US
supporting
going mad
going into raptures
going wild
going crazy
glamouring up
glamourizing
adding dignity to
dedicating
setting much store by
bubbling
adding distinction to
heroizing
giving ovation
expressing respect for
talking excitedly
showing enthusiasm
going over the top
getting all worked up
giving a hand
showing appreciation
ordaining
adding lustre to
hiking
glamorising
UK
romanticising
UK
falling all over
making a to-do
carrying on about
giving a big hand
giving a standing ovation
putting your hands together
anointing
giving a round of applause
sacralizing
making holy
sacrificing
making sacred
setting apart
absolving
sprinkling
baptising
UK
confirming
crossing
baptizing
US
signing
suggesting
devoting to God
dedicating to God
proposing
offerring benediction
invoking happiness on
pronouncing holy
invoking happiness
invoking benefits
praying for
propositioning
tabling
posing
proffering
advancing
nominating
tipping
prescribing
presenting
submitting
seconding
beating the drum for
going on record for
vouching for
looking with favour on
fronting for
speaking favourably of
standing by
holding up
putting forward
putting in a good word
giving a tip
offering a suggestion
putting in a good word for
tipping off
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Verb
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Present participle for speak or write effusively or with exaggerated enthusiasm
enthusing
babbling
admiring
oozing
prattling
gushing
raving
effusing
rhapsodizing
US
effervescing
spouting
overstating
drooling
fussing
slobbering
ballyhooing
jabbering
chattering
blathering
prating
going wild
going mad
going into raptures
bubbling over
rhapsodising
UK
waxing lyrical
going crazy
getting carried away
overstating the case
praising to the skies
going over the top
going on about
making a to-do over
making too much of something
falling all over
bigging something up
getting all worked up
carrying on about
crying up
heaping praise on
eulogizing
US
eulogising
UK
making much of
acclaiming
praising
lauding
extolling
panegyrizing
throwing bouquets at
bigging up
talking excitedly
showing enthusiasm
expressing intense pleasure
expressing intense enthusiasm
gloating over
raving about
going on
going into ecstasies
becoming enthusiastic
slobbering over
bubbling
praising enthusiastically
enthusing over
rhapsodizing over
gushing about
enthusing about
waxing lyrical about
gushing over
going into raptures about
going into raptures over
expressing delight over
singing the praises of
going wild about
making a to-do
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for seek as romantic partner
wooing
courting
chasing
pursuing
sparking
importuning
inviting
romancing
running after
addressing
asking for
begging
caressing
charming
chasing after
cultivating
dating
encouraging
entreating
flirting with
proposing
rushing
soliciting
spooning
seeking to win
aiming for
buttering up
currying favour
curry favoring
going steady
keeping company
making advances
making love
making love to
paying court to
paying suit to
billing and coo
paying addresses to
seeking in marriage
setting your cap at
pressing one's suit with
seeking the hand of
setting one's cap for
alluring
captivating
enticing
gallanting
serenading
suing
tempting
chatting up
making advances to
making eyes at
seeking the company of
taking out
asking in marriage
setting one's cap
popping the question
making overture
giving the come-on to
tracking with
tracking square with
going out with
seeing
making up to
going with
stepping out with
coming on to
going out
keeping company with
walking out with
going around with
consorting with
looking for
vamping
calling
making sheep's eyes at
making romantic advances to
going for
paying attention to
playing up to
having an affair with
having a fling with
dallying with
partnering
swooning over
daydreaming about
putting on a pedestal
going courting with
acting romantically
escorting
socializing
US
socialising
UK
attending
going together
stepping around
going around together
making a date
more ❯
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