Word Meanings - ADULATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ADULATORY)
- Supple
- Pliant
- bending
- yielding
- flexible
- elastic
- servile
- fawning
- cringing
- adulatory
- sycophantic
- lithe
- limber
- compliant
Related words: (words related to ADULATORY)
- CRINGLE
An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. (more info) 1. A withe for fastening a gate. - FAWN
A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy. Shak. - SUPPLEMENT
The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180°; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle. Syn. -- Appendix. -- Appendix, Supplement. An appendix is that which - FAWNINGLY
In a fawning manner. - SERVILELY
In a servile manner; slavishly. - LITHERLY
Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy. He was waspish, arch, and litherly. Sir W. Scott. - SERVILENESS
Quality of being servile; servility. - YIELDABLE
Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall. - BENDER
1. One who, or that which, bends. 2. An instrument used for bending. 3. A drunken spree. Bartlett. 4. A sixpence. - YIELDANCE
1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South. - YIELDING
Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. -- - SUPPLELY
In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly. Cotgrave. - COMPLIANT
Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. "The compliant boughs." Milton. - LITHENESS
The quality or state of being lithe; flexibility; limberness. - LITHER
Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful. Chaucer. Not lither in business, fervent in spirit. Bp. Woolton. Note: Professor Skeat thinks " the lither sky" as found in Shakespeare's Henry VI. means the stagnant or pestilential sky. -- Li"ther*ly, - FAWN-COLORED
Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown. - YIELDER
One who yields. Shak. - ELASTIC
1. Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic. - BENDING
The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands. Chaucer. - COMPLIANTLY
In a compliant manner. - BLITHE
Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton. (more info) Icel. bli mild, gentle, Dan. & Sw. blid gentle, D. blijd blithe, - YIELD
pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be - UNELASTICITY
Inelasticity. - OUTFAWN
To exceed in fawning. - OVERBEND
To bend to excess. - UNFLEXIBLE
Inflexible. - INFLEXIBLE
1. Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding. 2. Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. "Inflexibleas steel." Miltom. Amanof upright and inflexibletemper - BLITHELY
In a blithe manner.