flatter
verb
[ ˈflatə ]
• lavish praise and compliments on (someone), often insincerely and with the aim of furthering one's own interests.
• "she was flattering him in order to avoid doing what he wanted"
Similar:
compliment,
praise,
commend,
admire,
express admiration for,
pay tribute to,
say nice things about,
pay court to,
pay blandishments to,
fawn on,
wax lyrical about,
make much of,
cajole,
humour,
blarney,
sweet-talk,
soft-soap,
butter up,
lay it on thick,
lay it on with a trowel,
play up to,
suck up to,
crawl to,
creep to,
be all over,
fall all over,
flannel,
blandish,
laud,
panegyrize,
Origin:
Middle English: perhaps a back-formation from flattery.
flat
adjective
• having a level surface; without raised areas or indentations.
• "he sat down on a flat rock"
Similar:
level,
horizontal,
levelled,
smooth,
even,
uniform,
consistent,
featureless,
flush,
plumb,
regular,
unvarying,
continuous,
unbroken,
plane,
• lacking emotion; dull and lifeless.
• "‘I'm sorry,’ he said, in a flat voice"
Similar:
monotonous,
toneless,
droning,
boring,
dull,
tedious,
uninteresting,
unexciting,
soporific,
bland,
vapid,
vacant,
insipid,
prosaic,
dreary,
colourless,
featureless,
jejune,
emotionless,
unfeeling,
unexcited,
unexpressive,
expressionless,
lifeless,
spiritless,
lacklustre,
dead,
deadly,
• (of a sparkling drink) having lost its effervescence.
• "she sipped some of the flat champagne"
Similar:
still,
dead,
no longer effervescent,
• (of a fee, wage, or price) the same in all cases, not varying with changed conditions or in particular cases.
• "a flat fare of £2.50"
Similar:
fixed,
set,
regular,
established,
unchanging,
unvarying,
invariable,
unfluctuating,
consistent,
constant,
uniform,
straight,
hard and fast,
• (of musical sound) below true or normal pitch.
• relating to flat racing.
• "the Flat season"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old Norse flatr .
