flatter
Meanings
Plural: flatters
Verb
- praise somewhat dishonestly
- To compliment someone, often (but not necessarily) insincerely and sometimes to win favour.
- To enhance or gratify someone's vanity by praising them.
- To portray someone to advantage.
- To encourage or cheer someone with (usually false) hope.
- To cheer or please (with the idea that); congratulate oneself, especially when the perception is false.
- To cheer or please (with the idea that); congratulate oneself, especially when the perception is false.
- In phrasal verb "to flatter with": to encourage, inspire with hope.
Adjective Satellite
- having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
- having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
- not modified or restricted by reservations
- stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
- flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
- lacking taste or flavor or tang
- lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
- having lost effervescence
- sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
- horizontally level
- lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
- not reflecting light; not glossy
- commercially inactive
Adjective
- lacking contrast or shading between tones
- (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
Adj
- comparative form of flat: more flat
Noun
- A type of set tool used by blacksmiths.
- A flat-faced fulling hammer.
- A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips such as watch springs.
- Someone who flattens, purposely or accidentally. Also flattener.
- Someone who lives in a rented flat.
Origin / Etymology
From flat + -er (comparative suffix). Compare Icelandic flatari (“flatter, more flat”).
Synonyms
2-dimensional, bland, blandish, categoric, categorical, compressed, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, level, mat, matt, matte, matted, monotone, monotonic, monotonous, plane, prostrate, savorless, savourless, stroke someone's ego, two-dimensional, unconditional, vapid
Scrabble Score: 10
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