adulator

Meaning

One who lavishes excessive praises or flattery; one who adulates.

Synonyms

flatterer

sycophant

lickspittle

toad-eater

soother

courtier

fawner

groveller

grovelling

ingratiating

laudator

minion

obsequious

smoothie

sycophantic

toady

unctuous

apple polisher

soft-soaper

wheedler

backscratcher

smoothy

blandisher

toadyish

bootlicker

cajoler

deferential

fawning

groveler

groveling

Translations

adulatore

Schmeichler

adulador

adulator

adulateur

adulatrice

κόλακας

flatteur

γαλίφης

flatteuse

μαλαγάνας

laudateur

louangeur

llagoter

griot

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adūlātor.