'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]
Synonyms of 'flattering'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abject,
- acclamatory,
- admiring,
- adulatory,
- appreciative,
- approbatory,
- backscratching,
- becoming,
- beggarly,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- bootlicking,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- commendatory,
- complimentary,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- encomiastic,
- enhancing,
- eulogistic,
- fair-spoken,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- footlicking,
- fulsome,
- gratifying,
- groveling,
- gushing,
- hangdog,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- ingratiating,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- kind,
- laudatory,
- mealymouthed,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- on bended knee,
- panegyric,
- parasitic,
- prostrate,
- regardful,
- respectful,
- slimy,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sniveling,
- soapy,
- soft-soaping,
- sponging,
- sugary,
- sycophantic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- truckling,
- unctuous,
- wheedling