| 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: | flattery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false praise, compliments |
Synonyms: |
adulation, applause, approbation, blandishment, blarney, bootlicking, cajolery, commendation, encomium, eulogy, eyewash, fawning, flattering, flummery, fulsomeness, gallantry, gratification, hokum, honeyed words, incense, ingratiation, jive, laud, mush, obsequiousness, palaver, plaudits, pretty speech, puffery, servility, smoke*, snow job, snow*, soft words, soft-soap, stroke*, sweet talk, sycophancy, toadyism, tribute, truckling, unctuousness |
Antonyms: |
belittlement, castigation, condemnation, criticism, denunciation, insult, offense |
| Main Entry: | praise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | congratulations; adoration |
Synonyms: |
acclaim, acclamation, accolade, applause, appreciation, approbation, approval, big hand, boost, bravo, celebration, cheer, cheering, citation, commendation, compliment, cry, devotion, encomium, esteem, eulogy, exaltation, extolment, flattery, glorification, glory, good word, homage, hurrah, hymn, kudos*, laudation, obeisance, ovation, panegyric, pat on the back, plaudit, puff, rave, recognition, recommendation, regard, sycophancy, thanks, tribute, worship |
Antonyms: |
blame, censure, condemnation, criticism |
| Main Entry: | blandishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flattery |
Synonyms: |
adulation, allurement, blandishments, blarney, cajolery, coaxing, enticement, fawning, honeyed words, praise, sweet talk, sweet words, sycophancy, wheedling |
| Main Entry: | laudation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | praise |
Synonyms: |
acclaim, acclamation, accolade, applause, appreciation, approbation, approval, big hand, boost, bravo, celebration, cheer, cheering, citation, commendation, compliment, cry, devotion, encomium, esteem, eulogy, exaltation, extolment, flattery, glorification, glory, good word, homage, hurrah, hymn, kudos*, obeisance, ovation, panegyric, pat on the back, plaudit, puff, rave, recognition, recommendation, regard, sycophancy, thanks, tribute, worship |
| Main Entry: | magnification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | praise |
Synonyms: |
acclaim, acclamation, accolade, applause, appreciation, approbation, approval, big hand, boost, bravo, celebration, cheer, cheering, citation, commendation, compliment, cry, devotion, encomium, enlargement, esteem, eulogy, exaggeration, exaltation, extolment, flattery, glorification, glory, good word, homage, hurrah, hymn, kudos*, laudation, obeisance, ovation, overstatement, panegyric, pat on the back, plaudit, puff, rave, recognition, recommendation, regard, sycophancy, thanks, tribute, worship |
| Main Entry: | adulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
oily, abject, adulatory, base, beggarly, blandiloquent, caressed, caressing, come, courtierly, cringing, crouching, dicty, down on one's marrow, fawning, fine, flattering, fulsome, gnathonic, going steady, groveling, honey, honeyed, lovesick, mealy, osculant, parasitical, parietal, plausible, pliant, prostrate, puzzomous, servile, slavish, smooth, smooth, sniveling, soapy, specious, spoony, supple, supple as a glove, sycophantic, unctuous
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| Concept: | Flattery. |
| Category: | 2. Moral sentiments |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
flattery, adulation, gloze; blandishment, blandiloquence; cajolery; fawning, wheedling; captation, coquetry, obsequiousness, sycophancy, flunkeyism, toadeating, tuft-hunting; snobbishness., incense, honeyed words, flummery; bunkum, buncombe; blarney, placebo, butter; soft soap, soft sawder; rose water., voice of the charmer, mouth honor; lip homage; euphemism; unctuousness.
-verbs
flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly [U.S.]; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one's bent; lick the dust., lay the flattering unction to one's soul, gild the pill, make things pleasant., overestimate; exaggerate.
-adjectives
flattering; adulatory; mealy-mouthed, honey-mouthed; honeyed; smooth, smooth-tongued; soapy, oily, unctuous, blandiloquent, specious; fine-spoken, fair spoken; plausible, servile, sycophantic, fulsome; courtierly, courtier-like.
-adverbs
ad captandum.
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