ingratiating

ingratiating

adjective

Definition of INGRATIATING

likely or intended to win one's affection <one of the orphans had a most ingratiating smile>

Synonyms disarming, endearing, insinuating, winning, winsome

Related Words adorable, charming, likable (or likeable), lovable (also loveable); affecting, poignant, touching; adulatory, deferential, effusive, flattering, fulsome, groveling (or grovelling), kowtowing, obsequious, servile, sycophantic; drooling, oleaginous, slavering, slobbering; saccharine, soapy, sugary, unctuous

Near Antonyms alienating, disaffecting, displeasing; repugnant, repulsive; arrogant, disdainful, haughty, insolent, proud, scornful

Antonyms unendearing, uningratiating