Synonyms of flattering

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adjective

1

as in laudatory

Synonyms & Similar Words

• laudatory
• eulogistic
• favorable
• hagiographical
• positive
• hagiographic
• panegyrical
• encomiastic
• complimentary
• appreciative
• friendly
• praiseful
• warm
• admiring
• commendatory
• approving
• supportive
• accepting
• respectful
• sympathetic
• laudative
• good
• applauding
• adulatory
• worshipful
• approbatory
• adoring
• worshipping
• worshiping
• advisory
• recommendatory
• idolizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• critical
• captious
• hypercritical
• overcritical
• censuring
• faultfinding
• disparaging
• scornful
• contemptuous
• unflattering
• disdainful
• negative
• slighting
• unfavorable
• belittling
• adverse
• cavilling
• derogatory
• uncomplimentary
• carping
• caviling
• unfriendly
• disapproving
• depreciatory
• unappreciative
• depreciative
• inappreciative

2

as in excessive

Synonyms & Similar Words

• excessive
• fulsome
• pretentious
• inflated
• grandiose
• boastful
• stilted
• bombastic
• rhetoric
• bloated
• pompous
• affected
• purple
• flowery
• grandiloquent
• ornate
• eloquent
• rhetorical
• florid
• fancy-pants
• high-sounding
• hifalutin
• high-flown
• lofty
• bookish
• highfalutin
• aureate
• magnific
• learned
• elevated
• inkhorn

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• prosaic
• simple
• direct
• plain
• lean
• matter-of-fact
• straightforward
• unpoetic
• spare
• bald
• unadorned
• stark
• natural
• unaffected
• unpretentious
• plainspoken

flattering

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verb

present participle of flatter

1

as in praising

to praise too much

the billionaire has an army of assistants who are eager to flatter him at every opportunity

Synonyms & Similar Words

• praising
• commending
• massaging
• applauding
• congratulating
• stroking
• puffing
• overpraising
• coaxing
• hero-worshiping
• honeying
• fawning
• buttering up
• adulating
• belauding
• complimenting
• worshiping
• wooing
• cajoling
• toadying
• wheedling
• sucking (up to)
• extolling
• blarneying
• hero-worshipping
• kowtowing
• ingratiating
• soft-soaping
• eulogizing
• endearing
• blandishing
• idolizing
• lauding
• sweet-talking
• gushing
• worshipping
• felicitating
• romancing
• slavering
• courting
• slobbering
• drooling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• disparaging
• belittling
• putting down
• depreciating
• decrying
• bad-mouthing

2

as in priding

to think highly of (oneself)

don't flatter yourself that no one has ever thought of that idea before

Synonyms & Similar Words

• priding
• congratulating
• pluming
• bragging
• boasting
• vaunting
• vaporing
• swaggering
• piquing
• swanking
• crowing
• felicitating
• swashing
• gasconading

Examples of flattering in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

Any editorializing is strictly ambient, even as Devor assembles his archival footage — some of which was shot by the likes of Agnès Varda and Sandra Hochman — into a vivid overview of 1970s unrest, no part of which is flattering to the U.S. government. —David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2024

The flattering design includes an A-line skirt that flares at the bottom. —Hannah Rice, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2024

This flattering crewneck cardigan is a classic that goes with everything. —Becca Blond, Travel + Leisure, 3 Oct. 2024

The elastic waistband provides a flattering fit that’s also comfortable to wear. —Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2024