flatter

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈflætə/    美 /ˈflætɚ/|[ˈflæɾɚ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A type of set tool used by blacksmiths. ambitransitive
  2. Someone who lives in a rented flat. New-Zealand,UK,ambitransitive,slang
  3. A flat-faced fulling hammer. ambitransitive
  4. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips such as watch springs. ambitransitive
  5. Someone who flattens, purposely or accidentally. Also flattener. ambitransitive
动词 v.
  1. To compliment someone, often (but not necessarily) insincerely and sometimes to win favour. ambitransitive
    — A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
  2. To enhance or gratify someone's vanity by praising them. ambitransitive
  3. To portray someone to advantage. ambitransitive
    — Her portrait flatters her.
  4. To encourage or cheer someone with (usually false) hope. ambitransitive
    — […] I went up, and sat there two Hours and an half before I cou’d discern any Thing like Land; and when I first saw it I told my Comrade, but not being certain I wou’d not call out; for the Case was of such Importance, that they were not to be trifled with, or flatter’d into vain Hopes.
  5. To cheer or please (with the idea that); congratulate oneself, especially when the perception is false. ambitransitive,reflexive,usually
    — Before the results came out, I flattered myself that I had done well on the test. It turned out I was the worst in the class!
  6. To cheer or please (with the idea that); congratulate oneself, especially when the perception is false.; In phrasal verb "to flatter with": to encourage, inspire with hope. ambitransitive,intransitive,obsolete,reflexive,usually
    — Run after that ſame peeuiſh Meſſenger / The Countes man: he left this Ring behinde him / Would I, or not: tell him, Ile none of it. / Deſire him not to flatter with his Lord, / Nor hold him vp with hopes, I am not for him:
形容词 adj.
  1. comparative form of flat: more flat comparative,form-of

词形变化

flatters present,singular,third-person flattering participle,present flattered participle,past flattered past flatters plural flatters plural

词汇关系

近义词
brush up to collogue flatter flatterize glaver gloze jolly lay it on thick make fair weather palaver preen puff soothe speak well of stroke tickle the ear
反义词
defame offend
下位词
coax suck up adulate beflatter beslaver beslubber daub overflatter overpraise blow sunshine up someone's ass
衍生词
beflatter flatterable flatteress flatterize flatter oneself flatterous flattersome flatter to deceive outflatter overflatter unflatter
相关词
flatterer flattering flattery unflattering allure glorify woo

词源

词源 1
From flat + -er (comparative suffix). Compare Icelandic flatari (“flatter, more flat”).
词源 2
*From Middle English flatteren, flateren (“to flutter, float, fawn over”), probably a conflation of Old English floterian, flotorian (“to flutter, float, be disquieted”), from Proto-West Germanic *flotrōn, from Proto-Germanic *flutrōną (“to be floating”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (“to flow, swim”), equivalent to float + -er; and Old Norse flaðra (“to fawn on someone, flatter”), from Proto-Germanic *flaþrōną (“to fawn over, flutter”), from Proto-Indo-European *peled- (“moisture, wetness”), *pel- (“to gush, pour out, fill, flow, swim, fly”). Cognate with Scots flatter, flotter (“to float; splash; cover with liquid”), Middle Dutch flatteren (“to embellish, flatter, caress”), German flattern (“to flutter”).
*The word was also falsely associated with Middle French flatter (“to flatter, to caress with the flat of the hand”), from Old French flater (“to deceive by concealing the truth, to stroke with the palm of the hand”), from Frankish *flat (“palm, flat of the hand”), from Proto-Germanic *flatą, *flatō (“palm, sole”), from *flataz (“flat”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-, *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”); related to Old High German flazza (“palm, flat of the hand”), Old High German flaz (“level, flat”), Old Saxon flat (“flat”), Old Norse flatr (“flat”) (whence English flat), Old Frisian flet, flette (“dwelling, house”), Old English flet, flett (“ground floor, dwelling”). More at flat.
词源 3
Etymology tree
English flat
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English flatter
From flat (“to make flat, flatten”) + -er (agent suffix).
词源 4
Etymology tree
English flat
English -er
English flatter
From flat (“dwelling, apartment”) + -er (residency suffix).
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