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| Main Entry: | complimentary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flattering |
| Synonyms: | appreciative, congratulatory, courtly, fawning, honeyed, laudatory, polite, respectful, unctuous, adulatory, approbative, approbatory, approving, celebrating, commendatory, encomiastic, encomiastical, eulogistic, fair-spoken, highly favorable, honoring, panegyrical, plauditory, praiseful, sycophantic, well-wishing, with high praise, with highest recommendation |
| Notes: | something is complimentary when it has the property embodied in such an expression; complementary describes an addition that produces completeness or perfection in something |
| Antonyms: | critical, disparaging, insulting, unflattering, blaming, censuring, denouncing, reproachful |
| Main Entry: | complimentary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | free |
| Synonyms: | courtesy, gratis, gratuitous, honorary, on the house*, as a perk, chargeless, comp, costless, donated, free lunch, free of charge |
| Antonyms: | for sale |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | courtly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | refined manner |
| Synonyms: | affable, aristocratic, august, ceremonious, chivalrous, civil, civilized, complimentary, conventional, cultured, decorous, dignified, elegant, flattering, formal, gallant, gracious, imposing, lofty, obliging, polished, polite, prim, refined, stately, studied, urbane, adulatory, high-bred, preux |
| Antonyms: | impolite, indecorous, inelegant, provincial, rough, uncivil, unpolished, unrefined, low-bred |
| Main Entry: | gratis |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | free |
| Synonyms: | complimentary, free ride*, freebie*, gratuitous, on the house*, as a gift, chargeless, costless, for love, for nothing, free of charge, freely given, on someone, unpaid for, without charge, without recompense |
| Antonyms: | costly, expensive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | on the house |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | for free |
| Synonyms: | complimentary, free, free ride*, freebie*, freebie, gratis, gratuitous, chargeless, compliments of the house, costless, for nothing, for the asking, free of charge, free of cost, no charge, on the cuff |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | congratulatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | congratulating |
| Synonyms: | complimentary, flattering, laudatory, celebratory |
| Main Entry: | flattering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | laudatory |
| Synonyms: | complimentary, favorable |
| Main Entry: | favorable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | approving, friendly |
| Synonyms: | affirmative, agreeable, amicable, benevolent, benign, complimentary, encouraging, enthusiastic, inclined, kind, kindly, laudatory, okay, positive, predisposed, sympathetic, understanding, acclamatory, approbative, approbatory, assenting, benignant, commending, in favor of, praiseful, reassuring, recommendatory, supportive, welcoming, well-disposed, well-intentioned |
| Antonyms: | bad, disagreeable, unfavorable, unfriendly, unpromising |
| Main Entry: | free |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without charge |
| Synonyms: | complimentary, free ride*, freebie*, gratis, gratuitous, handout, on the house*, paper*, unpaid, chargeless, comp, costless, for love, for nothing, free of cost, on the cuff, unrecompensed |
| Antonyms: | costly, expensive, high-priced, priced |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gratuitous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | free |
| Synonyms: | complimentary, gratis, spontaneous, unpaid, voluntary, willing, chargeless, costless, for nothing, unasked-for |
| Antonyms: | costly, expensive |
| Main Entry: | glowing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very happy, enthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | ardent, avid, blazing, burning, complimentary, desirous, eager, ecstatic, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, flaming, heated, impassioned, keen, laudatory, passionate, rave, rhapsodic, zealous, adulatory, eulogistic, hot-blooded, panegyrical |
| Antonyms: | dull, unenthusiastic, unhappy, unsmiling |
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| Main Entry: | approval |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
OK, acquiescent, affirmative, agreed, agreed on all hands, approved, approving, assenting, at one with, benedictory, beyond all praise, carried, carried by acclamation, cataphatic, commendable, commendatory, complimentary, consensual, consentaneous, consenting, content, creditable, crurophilous, deserving, deserving praise, encomiastic, estimable, eulogistic, exemplary, favorable, good, hortatory, in favor, in favor of, in good ordor, in high esteem, in high power, laudatory, lavish of praise, lost in admiration, meritorious, of estimation, of one accord, of one mind, of the same mind, okey-doke, pactitious, panegyrical, plausible, popular, praised, praiseworthy, squeezable, unanimous, uncensured, unchallenged, unconditional, uncontradicted, uncontroverted, uncritical, unimpeachable, unimpeached, unquestioned, untouchable, willing, worthy of praise
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