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endearing
Synonyms and Antonyms of endearing
- you have to wonder about people who don't find kittens and puppies endearing
beloved, cherished, favored, favorite, loved, treasured
attractive, beautiful, desirable, lovely
alluring, appealing, captivating, charming, enchanting, engaging, entrancing, fascinating, fetching
admirable, likable (or likeable), reputable, respectable
affable, agreeable, cheerful, cordial, friendly, genial, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, kind, nice, pleasant
contemptible, disagreeable, disgusting, distasteful, heinous, horrible, lousy, nasty, offensive, unlikable, unpleasant, wretched
frightful, grotesque, hideous, ill-favored, monstrous, ogreish, repellent (also repellant), repugnant, repulsive
ugly, unattractive, unsightly, vile
appalling, awful, dreadful, foul, horrendous, horrid, nauseating, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, revolting, scandalous, shocking, sickening
- his impish sense of humor is one of his more endearing traits
adorable, charming, likable (or likeable), lovable (also loveable)
adulatory, deferential, effusive, flattering, fulsome, groveling (or grovelling), kowtowing, obsequious, servile, sycophantic
Synonyms and Antonyms of endearing
- They endeared themselves to the whole town.
adulating, belauding, blarneying, buttering up, flattering, hero-worshipping (also hero-worshiping), honeying, massaging, overpraising, puffing, soft-soaping, stroking
blandishing, cajoling, coaxing, sweet-talking, wheedling
fawning, kowtowing, sucking (up to), toadying
idolizing, worshipping (also worshiping)
eulogizing, extolling, lauding, praising
applauding, commending, complimenting
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