flatter
Meaning
-
comparative form of flat: more flat
Synonyms
fawn on
curry favour with
fawn upon
ingratiate oneself with
suck up to
curry flavour
lick one’s boots
play up to
curry favor with
cleave to
decieve
make up to
pour it on
press together
think highly of oneself
join up with
obey implicitly
boot-lick
ingratiate oneself
flat ter with praise
flatter obsequiously
speak highly of
cuury favour with
endear oneself to
lavish praise on
pamper spoil coddle
plead with sweet words
talk sweetly
to be conceited
court favor
court favour
admire
enhance
flirt with
Frequency
Hyphenated as
flat‧ter
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈflætɚ/
Etymology
In summary
From flat + -er (comparative suffix). Compare Icelandic flatari (“flatter, more flat”).
New
flat
-
- Having no variations in height.
- Having no variations in height.
- (slang) Having no variations in height.
- Having no variations in height.
- Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
- Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
- Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
- Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
- Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
- Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
- Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
- Lowered by one semitone.
- Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
- Absolute; downright; peremptory.
- Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
- With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
- Lacking acidity without being sweet.
- Unable to emit power; dead.
- Without spin; spinless.
- Sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant.
- Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "to".
- Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
- Flattening at the ends.
- Exact.
- Such that the tensor product preserves exact sequences. See Flat module on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.
- Such that its target, regarded as a module over its source, is flat (as above).
- Such that the induced map on every stalk is flat (as a map of rings).
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