Definition of flatter

"flatter" in the verb sense

1. flatter, blandish

praise somewhat dishonestly

"flatter" in the adjective sense

1. flat, level, plane

having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another

"a flat desk"

"acres of level farmland"

"a plane surface"

"skirts sewn with fine flat seams"

2. flat

having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness

"flat computer monitors"

3. categoric, categorical, flat, unconditional

not modified or restricted by reservations

"a categorical denial"

"a flat refusal"

4. flat, prostrate

stretched out and lying at full length along the ground

"found himself lying flat on the floor"

5. flat

lacking contrast or shading between tones

6. flat

of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone

"B flat"

7. compressed, flat

flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)

8. bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid

lacking taste or flavor or tang

"a bland diet"

"insipid hospital food"

"flavorless supermarket tomatoes"

"vapid beer"

"vapid tea"

9. bland, flat

lacking stimulating characteristics uninteresting

"a bland little drama"

"a flat joke"

10. flat

having lost effervescence

"flat beer"

"a flat cola"

11. flat, monotone, monotonic, monotonous

sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch

"the owl's faint monotonous hooting"

12. flat

horizontally level

"a flat roof"

13. two-dimensional, 2-dimensional, flat

lacking the expected range or depth not designed to give an illusion or depth

"a film with two-dimensional characters"

"a flat two-dimensional painting"

14. flat, mat, matt, matte, matted

not reflecting light not glossy

"flat wall paint"

"a photograph with a matte finish"

15. flat

commercially inactive

"flat sales for the month"

"prices remained flat"

"a flat market"

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Quotations for flatter

If you scold me, I will not flatter you. [ Proverb ]

Few are the faults we flatter when alone. [ Young ]

Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise. [ Richter ]

Society welcomes only those who amuse, or flatter. [ De Finod ]

If we did not flatter ourselves, nobody else could. [ Proverb ]

He is rich enough that needs neither flatter nor borrow. [ Proverb ]

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself. [ Johnson ]

He may very well be contented that need not buy nor flatter. [ Proverb ]

People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity. [ Tacitus ]

When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Flatter not the rich; neither do thou appear willingly before the great. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

As the Greek said, Many men know how to flatter, few men know bow to praise. [ Wendell Phillips ]

If we would not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could not harm us. [ Rochefoucauld ]

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artifices as we do ourselves. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again, though he were my best friend. [ Franklin ]

Men who flatter women do not know them; men who abuse them know them still less. [ Mme. de Salm ]

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artifices as we do our own selves. [ Schopenhauer ]

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all. [ Talleyrand ]

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

His nature is too noble for the world; he would not flatter Neptune for his trident, or Jove for his power to thunder. [ William Shakespeare ]

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Books are true friends that will never flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself, . . . and you shall need no other comfort. [ Bacon ]

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremoney are two things. [ Marcus Antonius ]

Friends should not be chosen to flatter. The quality we should prize is that rectitude which will shrink from no truth. Intimacies which increase vanity destroy friendship. [ William Ellery Channing ]

There are persons who flatter themselves that the size of their works will make them immortal. They pile up reluctant quarto upon solid folio, as if their labors, because they are gigantic, could contend with truth and heaven! [ Junius ]

Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe. to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals. [ Goldsmith ]

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation. [ Goldsmith ]

flatter in Scrabble®

The word flatter is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters flatter:

FLATTER
(92 = 42 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

flatter

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word flatter

FLATTER
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In flatter

FLATTER
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FLATTER
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FLATTER
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flatter in Words With Friends™

The word flatter is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters flatter:

FLATTER
(98 = 63 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

flatter

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word flatter

FLATTER
(98 = 63 + 35)
FLATTER
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In flatter

FLATTER
(98 = 63 + 35)
FLATTER
(92 = 57 + 35)
FLATTER
(86 = 51 + 35)
FLATTER
(80 = 45 + 35)
FLATTER
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Words within the letters of flatter

2 letter words in flatter (8 words)

3 letter words in flatter (19 words)

5 letter words in flatter (10 words)

6 letter words in flatter (4 words)

7 letter words in flatter (1 word)

flatter + 1 blank (4 words)

Words containing the sequence flatter

Words that end with flatter (2 words)

Word Growth involving flatter

Shorter words in flatter

at flat

la flat

at latte latter

la latte latter

Longer words containing flatter

flattered selfflattered

flatterer flatterers selfflatterers

flatterer selfflatterer selfflatterers

flattering flatteringly unflatteringly

flattering selfflattering

flattering unflattering unflatteringly

flatters

flattery selfflattery

selfflatter selfflattered

selfflatter selfflatterer selfflatterers

selfflatter selfflattering

selfflatter selfflattery