| Main Entry: | ingratiate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get on the good side of someone |
Synonyms: |
attract, blandish, brownnose, captivate, charm, crawl, flatter, get in with, grovel, hand a line, insinuate oneself, kowtow, play up to, seek favor, truckle |
Antonyms: |
deter, disgust, repel |
| Main Entry: | ingratiating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fawning, servile |
Synonyms: |
charming, crawling, deferential, disarming, flattering, humble, insinuating, obsequious, saccharine, serving, silken, smarmy, soft, sycophantic, toadying, unctuous |
Antonyms: |
deterring, disgusting, repellent |
| Main Entry: | bland |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, gracious |
Synonyms: |
affable, amiable, civilized, congenial, courteous, gentle, good-natured, ingratiating, oily, pleasant, smooth, suave, unctuous, unemotional, urbane |
Antonyms: |
blase, dull, unfriendly, ungracious |
| Main Entry: | deferential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | respectful, considerate |
Synonyms: |
civil, complaisant, courteous, disarming, duteous, dutiful, ingratiating, ingratiatory, insinuating, insinuative, obedient, obeisant, obsequious, polite, regardful, reverential, saccharine, silken, silky, submissive |
| Notes: | deferential means showing courteous expression of regard or respect; difference is the quality of being unlike or dissimilar; differential means relating to or showing a difference or the quality of the difference between similar things |
Antonyms: |
arrogant, disobedient, disrespectful, immodest, impolite, inconsiderate, noncompliant |
| Main Entry: | disarming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | charming |
Synonyms: |
bewitching, convincing, deferential, ingratiating, ingratiatory, insinuating, insinuative, inveigling, irresistible, likable, persuasive, saccharine, seductive, silken, silky, winning |
Antonyms: |
despicable, disgusting |
| 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: | fulsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sickening or excessive behavior |
Synonyms: |
adulatory, bombastic, buttery, canting, cloying, coarse, extravagant, fawning, flattering, glib, grandiloquent, hypocritical, immoderate, ingratiating, inordinate, insincere, magniloquent, mealy-mouthed, nauseating, offensive, oily, oleaginous, overdone, saccharine, sanctimonious, slick*, slimy*, smarmy, smooth, suave, sycophantic, unctuous, wheedling |
Antonyms: |
reasonable, sincere |
| Main Entry: | honeyed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sweetened |
Synonyms: |
cajoling, candied, dulcet, flattering, ingratiating, sugarcoated, sugary |
| Main Entry: | insinuate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | force one's way into |
Synonyms: |
curry favor, edge in, fill in, foist, get in with, horn in, infiltrate, infuse, ingratiate, inject, insert, instill, intercalate, interject, interpose, introduce, muscle in, slip in, wedge in, work in, worm in |
Antonyms: |
leave alone |
| Main Entry: | nice |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | likable, agreeable |
Synonyms: |
admirable, amiable, approved, attractive, becoming, charming, commendable, considerate, copacetic, cordial, courteous, decorous, delightful, ducky, fair, favorable, fine and dandy, friendly, genial, gentle, good, gracious, helpful, ingratiating, inviting, kind, kindly, lovely, nifty*, obliging, okay*, peachy*, pleasant, pleasurable, polite, prepossessing, seemly, simpatico, superior, swell, unpresumptuous, welcome, well-mannered, winning, winsome |
Antonyms: |
bad, disagreeable, horrible, nasty, repulsive, unlikable, unpleasant |