| Main Entry: | fawn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ingratiate oneself to; serve |
Synonyms: |
abase, apple-polish, be at beck and call, be obsequious, be servile, blandish, bow, brownnose, buddy up, butter up, cajole, cater to, cave in to, cotton, court, cower, crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, curry favor, debase, defer, fall all over, fall on one's knees, flatter, grovel, honey up, invite, jolly, kneel, kowtow, lay it on, lick boots, make up to, massage*, oil, pander, pay court, play up to, scrape, slaver, snow*, stoop, stroke*, submit, toady, truckle, woo*, yield |
Antonyms: |
ignore |
| Main Entry: | fawning |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deferential, groveling |
Synonyms: |
abject, adulatory, bootlicking, bowing, brownnosing, compliant, cowering, crawling, cringing, flattering, humble, ingratiating, kowtowing, mealy-mouthed, obsequious, parasitic, prostrate, scraping, servile, slavish, sniveling, spineless, submissive, subservient, sycophant, sycophantic |
Antonyms: |
aloof, cool, disinterested, proud, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | abject |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless and downtrodden |
Synonyms: |
base, contemptible, degraded, dejected, deplorable, dishonorable, fawning, forlorn, groveling, hangdog, humiliated, low, miserable, outcast, pitiable, servile, submissive, worthless, wretched |
Antonyms: |
commendable, exalted, excellent, magnificent, noble, proud, worthy |
| Main Entry: | adulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flatter |
Synonyms: |
apple polish, brown-nose, fall all over, fawn, gush, kiss feet, praise, worship |
| Main Entry: | adulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overenthusiastic praise |
Synonyms: |
applause, audation, blandishment, bootlicking, commendation, fawning, flattery, sycophancy, worship |
Antonyms: |
abuse, criticism |
| Main Entry: | blarney |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flattery |
Synonyms: |
a line, adulation, baloney, blandishment, cajolery, coaxing, compliments, exaggeration, eyewash, fawning, honey*, incense, ingratiation, inveiglement, oil, overpraise, soft soap, soft words, sweet talk, wheedling |
| Main Entry: | complimentary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flattering |
Synonyms: |
adulatory, appreciative, approbative, approbatory, approving, celebrating, commendatory, congratulatory, courtly, encomiastic, encomiastical, eulogistic, fair-spoken, fawning, highly favorable, honeyed, honoring, laudatory, panegyrical, plauditory, polite, praiseful, respectful, sycophantic, unctuous, 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: |
blaming, censuring, critical, denouncing, disparaging, insulting, reproachful, unflattering |
| Main Entry: | cower |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hide, hover in fear |
Synonyms: |
apple-polish, blench, bootlick, brownnose, cringe, crouch, draw back, fawn, flinch, grovel, honey*, kowtow, quail, recoil, shrink, skulk, sneak, toady, tremble, truckle, wince |
Antonyms: |
come out |
| Main Entry: | crawl |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | humble oneself |
Synonyms: |
abase oneself, apple-polish, brownnose, cringe, fawn, grovel, toady, truckle |
| Main Entry: | defer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | yield |
Synonyms: |
accede, accommodate, acquiesce, adapt, adjust, admit, agree, assent, bow, buckle, capitulate, cave, comply, concede, cringe, fawn, give in to, knuckle, knuckleunder, kowtow, obey, submit, succumb, truckle |
Antonyms: |
advance, force, forge |