English-Thai Dictionary

adulator

N การ ประจบ  kan-pa-job

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ADULATOR

n.A flatterer; one who offers praise servilely.

 

ADULATORY

a.Flattering; containing excessive praise or compliments; servilely praising; as, an adulatory address.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ADULATOR

Ad "u *la `tor, n. Etym: [L., fr. adulari: cf. F. adulateur. ]

 

Defn: A servile or hypocritical flatterer. Carlyle.

 

ADULATORY

Ad "u *la *to *ry, a. Etym: [L. adulatorius, fr. adulari: cf. OF. adulatoire.]

 

Defn: Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

adulatory

ad u la to ry |ˌajəˈlātôrē ˈæʤələtɔːri | ▶adjective excessively praising or admiring: an adulatory review | the tone here is adulatory and uncritical.

 

Oxford Dictionary

adulatory

adulatory |ˌadʒʊˈleɪt (ə )ri | ▶adjective excessively praising or admiring: an adulatory review | the tone here is adulatory and uncritical.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

adulatory

adulatory adjective he spoke of Leslie in adulatory terms: flattering, complimentary, highly favorable, enthusiastic, glowing, rhapsodic, eulogistic, laudatory; fulsome, honeyed. ANTONYMS disparaging.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

adulatory

adulatory adjective he wrote back to Lewis in adulatory terms: flattering, complimentary, highly favourable, commendatory, enthusiastic, glowing, appreciative, praising, worshipping, worshipful, reverential, lionizing, blandishing, acclamatory, rhapsodic, eulogistic, laudatory, fulsome; honeyed, sugary, saccharine, cloying; nauseating, ingratiating, obsequious, unctuous, sycophantic, servile, fawning; informal bootlicking, smarmy, rave; rare encomiastic, encomiastical. ANTONYMS disparaging, unflattering.

 

Spanish Dictionary

adulatorio, -ria

adulatorio, -ria adjetivo Que contiene adulación .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

adulatory

ad u la to ry /ǽdʒ (ə )lətɔ̀ːri |æ̀djuléɪt (ə )ri /形容詞 お世辞の .