Thesaurus:flatter
English
Verb
(transitive)
Sense: to compliment someone
Synonyms
- brush up to (archaic, slang)
- collogue
- flatter
- flatterize (nonstandard)
- glaver (obsolete)
- gloze
- jolly (archaic)
- lay it on thick (idiomatic)
- make fair weather (archaic)
- palaver
- preen
- puff
- soothe
- speak well of
- stroke (figurative, obsolete)
- tickle the ear (idiomatic)
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- coax [⇒ thesaurus]
- suck up [⇒ thesaurus]
- —
- adulate
- beflatter
- beslaver
- beslubber
- daub (obsolete)
- overflatter
- overpraise
- —
- blow sunshine up someone's ass (slang)
See also
Further reading
- “933. flattery” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “flatter” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.