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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | compliment excessively |
| Synonyms: | adulate, beslaver, blandish, bootlick, brownnose, build up*, butter up, cajole, cater to, charm, con, court, fawn*, get next to, glorify, grovel, humor, inveigle, jolly, lay it on thick, massage, oil, overpraise, play up to, praise, rub the right way, salve, sell, snow*, soft-soap, soften*, spread it on, stroke, suck up to, sweet-talk, sweeten up, toady, wheedle, work on, work over |
| Antonyms: | belittle, castigate, condemn, criticize, denounce, insult, offend |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | level, smooth |
| Synonyms: | collapsed, complanate, decumbent, deflated, depressed, empty, even, extended, fallen, flush, horizontal, laid low, low, oblate, outstretched, pancake, planar, planate, plane, procumbent, prone, prostrate, punctured, reclining, recumbent, splay, spread out, supine, tabular, unbroken |
| Antonyms: | broken, elevated, raised, rough, rounded, rugged, uneven |
| Main Entry: | flat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, lackluster to the senses |
| Synonyms: | banal, blah, bland, blind, boring, colorless, dead, dim, drab, draggy, flavorless, ho hum, inane, innocuous, insipid, jejune, lead balloon, lifeless, matte, monotonous, muted, pointless, prosaic, prosy, sapless, spiritless, stale, tasteless, tedious, uninteresting, unpalatable, unsavory, unseasoned, vanilla, vapid, watery, weak, whitebread |
| Antonyms: | bubbly, effervescent, sharp |
| Main Entry: | flat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | absolute, positive |
| Synonyms: | categorical, direct, downright, explicit, final, fixed, indubitable, out-and-out, peremptory, plain, straight, unconditional, unequivocal, unmistakable, unqualified, unquestionable |
| Antonyms: | indefinite |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | flat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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Adjectives: |
accumbent, aclinal, agroof, alluvial, applanate, calm, calm as a mill pond, campestral, champaign, couchant, decubital, decumbent, discoid, even, flat, flat as a billiard table, flat as a board, flat as a bowling-green, flat as a flounder, flat as a fluke, flat as a pancake, flat as my hand, flush, horizontal, jacent, level, lying, oblate, planar, plane, procumbent, prone, prostrate, raxed, rectiserial, recumbent, smooth, smooth as glass, supine, ventricumbent
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| Main Entry: | become |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | enhance |
| Synonyms: | accord, adorn, agree, augment, be appropriate, belong to, display, embellish, enrich, fit, flatter, garnish, go together, go with, grace, harmonize, heighten, make handsome, match, ornament, set off, suit |
| Main Entry: | brownnose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suck up to |
| Synonyms: | apple-polish, back-scratch, bootlick, curry favor, fawn on, flatter, get on the right side of, kiss ass, scratch one's back, suck up to, toady |
| Main Entry: | coax |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | persuade |
| Synonyms: | allure, argue into, arm-twist, barter, beguile, blandish, blarney, butter up, cajole, come on, con, decoy, entice, flatter, get, hook, importune, induce, influence, inveigle, jawbone, lure, pester, plague, press, prevail upon, rope in, soft-soap, soothe, sweet-talk, talk into, tease, tempt, urge, wangle, wheedle, work on, worm |
| Antonyms: | allow, not care |
| Main Entry: | court |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fawn over, pay attention to |
| Synonyms: | allure, ask in marriage, attract, beseech, bid, bootlick, captivate, charm, chase, cultivate, curry favor, date, entice, entreat, flatter, follow, gallant, go out with, go steady, go together, go with, grovel, importune, invite, keep company with, make love to, make overture, make time with, pander to, pay addresses to, pay court to, please, pop the question, praise, propose, pursue, run after, seek, seek the hand of, serenade, set one's cap, solicit, spark, spoon, sue, sweetheart, take out, woo |
| Antonyms: | disregard, ignore |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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