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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
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