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| Main Entry: |
complimentary
 [kom-pluh-men-tuh-ree, -tree] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flattering |
| Synonyms: | adulatory, appreciative, approbative, approbatory, approving, celebrating, commendatory, congratulatory, courtly, encomiastic, encomiastical, eulogistic, fair-spoken, fawning, highly favorable, honeyed, honoring, laudatory, panegyrical, plauditory, polite, praiseful, respectful, sycophantic, unctuous, well-wishing, with high praise, with highest recommendation |
| Notes: | something is complimentary when it has the property embodied in such an expression; complementary describes an addition that produces completeness or perfection in something |
| Antonyms: | blaming, censuring, critical, denouncing, disparaging, insulting, reproachful, unflattering |
| Main Entry: | fulsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sickening or excessive behavior |
| Synonyms: | adulatory, bombastic, buttery, canting, cloying, coarse, extravagant, fawning, flattering, glib, grandiloquent, hypocritical, immoderate, ingratiating, inordinate, insincere, magniloquent, mealy-mouthed, nauseating, offensive, oily, oleaginous, overdone, saccharine, sanctimonious, slick*, slimy*, smarmy, smooth, suave, sycophantic, unctuous, wheedling |
| Antonyms: | reasonable, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ingratiating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fawning, servile |
| Synonyms: | charming, crawling, deferential, disarming, flattering, humble, insinuating, obsequious, saccharine, serving, silken, smarmy, soft, sycophantic, toadying, unctuous |
| Antonyms: | deterring, disgusting, repellent |
Example Sentences
- Divisional managers tend to be quite sycophantic and not independent.
- All this sycophantic guff reflects widespread ignorance about what the queen has actually done.
- Essays full of sycophantic drivel wouldn't have fit the prompt.
| Main Entry: | menial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lowly, low-status |
| Synonyms: | abject, base, baseborn, boring, common, degrading, demeaning, dull, fawning, grovelling, humble, humdrum, ignoble, ignominious, low, mean, obeisant, obsequious, routine, servile, slavish, sorry, subservient, sycophantic, unskilled, vile |
| Antonyms: | elevated, skilled, superior, talented |
| Main Entry: | obsequious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | groveling, submissive |
| Synonyms: | abject, beggarly, brownnosing, complacent, compliable, compliant, cringing, crouching, deferential, enslaved, fawning, flattering, ingratiating, kowtowing, menial, obeisant, oily, parasitic, parasitical, prostrate, respectful, servile, slavish, sneaking, sniveling, spineless, stipendiary, subject, submissive, subordinate, subservient, sycophantic, toadying, unctuous |
| Antonyms: | arrogant, assertive, brazen, confident, presumptuous |
| Main Entry: | servile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grovelling, subservient |
| Synonyms: | abject, base, beggarly, bootlicking, craven, cringing, despicable, eating crow, eating humble pie, fawning, humble, ignoble, low, mean, obedient, obeisant, obsequious, passive, slavish, submissive, sycophantic, toadying, unctuous, unresisting |
| Antonyms: | aggressive, dominant |
| Main Entry: | subservient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely compliant |
| Synonyms: | a slave to, abject, acquiescent, at one's beck and call, at one's mercy, bootlicking, cowering, cringing, dancing, deferential, docile, fawning, ignoble, in one's clutches, in one's pocket, in one's power, inferior, mean, menial, obeisant, obsequious, resigned, servile, slavish, subject, submissive, sycophantic, under one's thumb |
| Antonyms: | controlling, domineering |
| Main Entry: | ingratiatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insinuating |
| Synonyms: | charming, crawling, deferential, disarming, flattering, humble, ingratiating, obsequious, saccharine, serving, silken, smarmy, soft, sugary, sycophantic, toadying, unctuous |
| Main Entry: | insinuating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | attempting to gain favor |
| Synonyms: | charming, crawling, deferential, disarming, flattering, humble, ingratiating, ingratiatory, obsequious, saccharine, serving, silken, smarmy, soft, sugary, sycophantic, toadying, unctuous |
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