'Flattering' definitions:

Definition of 'flattering'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Showing or representing to advantage; "a flattering color" [ant: uncomplimentary, unflattering]

Definition of 'Flattering'

From: GCIDE
  • Flattering \Flat"ter*ing\, a. That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a flattering speech. [1913 Webster]
  • Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • A flattering painter, who made it his care, To draw men as they ought be, not as they are. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Flattering'

From: GCIDE
  • Flatter \Flat"ter\ (fl[a^]t"t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Flattering.] [OE. flateren, cf. OD. flatteren; akin to G. flattern to flutter, Icel. fla[eth]ra to fawn, flatter: cf. F. flatter. Cf. Flitter, Flutter, Flattery.]
  • 1. To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by artful and interested commendation or attentions; to blandish; to cajole; to wheedle. [1913 Webster]
  • When I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net for his feet. --Prov. xxix. 5. [1913 Webster]
  • Others he flattered by asking their advice. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of; as, his portrait flatters him. [1913 Webster]

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