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Definition: Ingratiating |
IngratiatingAdjective1. Capable of winning favor; "with open arms and an ingratiating smile". 2. Calculated to please or gain favor; "a smooth ingratiating manner". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ingratiating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Synonym: IngratiatingSynonym: ingratiatory (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Courtesy | Ingratiating, winning; gentle, mild; good-humored, cordial, gracious, affable, familiar; neighborly. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ingratiating |
| English words defined with "ingratiating": buttery ♦ charmer ♦ fulsome ♦ ingratiatingly, ingratiatory ♦ obsequious, oily, oleaginous ♦ smarmy, smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker ♦ unctuous. (references) |
| "Ingratiating" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 52.17% of the time. "Ingratiating" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 52.17% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 47.83% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ingratiating": ingratiating-type. | |
Ending with "ingratiating": self-ingratiating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ingratiating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | magjepsur. (various references) | |
Arabic | متملق (blandly, coaxing, courtly, fawning, insinuating, oily, oleaginous, slimy, smooth, soapy, unctuous, wheedling). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | прекалено любезен (sugary), предразполагащ (prepossessing, propitiatory, silken, silky), привлекателен (alluring, appealing, attractive, catching, catchy, congenial, cute, debonair, desirable, engaging, enticing, fetching, interesting, inviting, lickerish, likable, likeable, likely, lovable, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, seductive, sightly, taking, tempting, winsome, yummy), подкупващ (bribing, disarming, inviting, silken, silky). (various references) | |
Czech | vtíravý (catchy, haunting, obsessive, obtrusive), vemlouvavý, pùvabný (appealing, attractive, charming, comely, dainty, graceful, gracious, inviting, lightsome, lovely, pleasing, prepossessing, statuesque, winsome), nasládlý, úlisný (honeyed, honied, mealy mouthed, sleek, smarmy, smooth, smooth-faced). (various references) | |
French | insinuant (insinuating). (various references) | |
German | einnehmend (engaging, fetching, likable, likeable, prepossessing, winning), beliebt machend. (various references) | |
Hungarian | megnyerő (affable, captivating, endearing), behízelgõ. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 猫撫で声 (ingratiating voice, wheedling voice), 猫なで声 (ingratiating voice, wheedling voice), 愛想笑い (insincere or ingratiating smile). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ねこなでごえ (ingratiating voice, wheedling voice), あいそわらい (insincere or ingratiating smile). (various references) | |
Manx | foayr-hirrey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingratiatingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | insinuante (silky, suggestive, winning, winsome), que inspira simpatia, atraente (lovely). (various references) | |
Romanian | simpatic (attractive, attractively, congenial, inclination, kindly, likable, lovely, nice, nicely, pleasant, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, shine, sympathetic), mieros (cajoling, greasy, honeyed, oilily, oily, silky, sleek, smooth, smooth-faced, soapy, sugary, unctuous), linguşitor (adulatory, bootlicker, cajoler, cajoling, crawler, encomiast, fawning, flatterer, flattering, flunkey, gratifying, oilily, reptile, servile, sleek, smoothie, spaniel, supple, supply, sycophant, toad, toad-eater, toad-eating, toady, yes man). (various references) | |
Russian | заискивать подкупающий, льстивый (adulatory, flattering, smarmy, sycophantic, wheedling). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | umilan (pleasant, suave). (various references) | |
Spanish | insinuante (insinuating, suggestive), congraciador. (various references) | |
Swedish | inställsam (obsequious, slimy, smarmy, supple), insmickrande. (various references) | |
Turkish | sokulgan (affable, amiable, friendly, gregarious, sociable). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чарівний (admirable, adorable, alluring, amiable, appealing, basilisk, captivating, charming, compelling, darling, delicious, delightful, elfish, elvish, enchanted, enchanting, engaging, entrancing, fairy, fascinating, glamorous, glamourous, goluptious, lovely, magic, magical, orphean, pretty). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ingratiating": ingratiatingly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ingratiating": uningratiating. (additional references) | |
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"Ingratiating" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: engratiating, ingeratiating, ingraitiating, ingritiating. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ingratiating" (pronounced inggrā"shēā'ting) |
| 6 | -sh ē ā' t i ng | appreciating, depreciating, excruciating, initiating, negotiating, officiating, renegotiating. |
| 5 | -ē ā' t i ng | appropriating, abbreviating, affiliating, alleviating, associating, delineating, differentiating, enunciating, excoriating, humiliating, infuriating, mediating, misappropriating, nauseating, obviating, permeating, radiating, recreating, repatriating, repudiating, retaliating. |
| 4 | -ā' t i ng | anticipating, approximating, arbitrating, abrogating, accelerating, accentuating, accommodating, abdicating, accumulating, activating, adjudicating, administrating, advocating, aggravating, agitating, alienating, allocating, alternating, articulating, assassinating, assimilating, authenticating, automating, calculating, captivating, castigating, castrating, celebrating, chlorinating, circulating, coagulating, collaborating, commemorating, communicating, compensating, complicating, concentrating, confiscating, congratulating, consolidating, consummating, contaminating, contemplating, cooperating, coordinating, corroborating, culminating, cultivating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, degenerating, delegating, deliberating, demonstrating, denigrating, deprecating, deregulating, designating, deteriorating, detonating, devastating, dictating, discriminating, disintegrating, disseminating, dissipating, domesticating, dominating, donating, duplicating, educating, elaborating, electroplating, elevating, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emulating, encapsulating, equivocating, eradicating, escalating, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, exacerbating, exaggerating, exasperating, excavating, exhilarating, exonerating, extenuating, exterminating, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fascinating, fluctuating, formulating, frustrating, generating, graduating, gravitating, gyrating, hesitating, hydrogenating, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impersonating, implicating, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, infatuating, infiltrating, instigating, insulating, integrating, interrogating, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, investigating, invigorating, irritating, isolating, laminating, legislating, levitating, liberating, liquidating, litigating, locating, lubricating, mandating, manipulating, masturbating, meditating, migrating, mitigating, moderating, motivating, mutilating, navigating, necessitating, nitrating, nominating, nonoperating, obliterating, operating, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, overestimating, overstating, participating, penetrating, percolating, perpetrating, perpetuating, placating, pontificating, populating, precipitating, predominating, procrastinating, prognosticating, proliferating, promulgating, propagating, pulsating, reactivating, reallocating, recalculating, reciprocating, recuperating, redecorating, reevaluating, regenerating, regulating, rehabilitating, reincorporating, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejuvenating, relegating, renovating, replicating, resonating, resuscitating, reverberating, rotating, salivating, saturating, segregating, separating, simulating, speculating, stagnating, stimulating, stipulating, subordinating, suffocating, syndicating, tabulating, terminating, titillating, tolerating, underestimating, understating, undulating, urinating, vacillating, validating, ventilating. |
| 3 | -t i ng | annotating, appointing, abutting, accenting, accepting, abating, abducting, abetting, aborting, accosting, accounting, accrediting, acquitting, acting, adapting, addicting, adjusting, admitting, adopting, affecting, afflicting, airlifting, alerting, allotting, amounting, arresting, assaulting, asserting, assisting, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, carpeting, carting, casting, catapulting, cavorting, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commenting, committing, commuting, competing, complementing, completing, complimenting, composting, computing, concocting, conducting, conflicting, confronting, connecting, consenting, consisting, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, contacting, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, decanting, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, deleting, delighting, delisting, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deserting, destructing, detecting, detracting, devoting, dieting, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, disgusting, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, dissenting, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, dusting, eating, editing, effecting, elating, electing, eliciting, emitting, enacting, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, equating, erecting, erupting, escorting, everlasting, evicting, exacting, exalting, excepting, exciting, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhorting, existing, exiting, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extorting, extracting, extraditing, fainting, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, grafting, granting, grating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, hunting, hurting, igniting, impacting, imparting, implanting, implementing, importing, imprinting, inciting, indicting, infecting, infighting, inflating, inflicting, ingesting, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instituting, instructing, insulting, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrupting, intersecting, inventing, investing, inviting, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, lasting, letting, lifting, lighting, limiting, listing, looting, lusting, malting, manifesting, marketing, marting, mating, matting, meeting, melting, minting, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, mounting, mutating, muting, negating, neglecting, nesting, netting, nonbiting, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obstructing, offsetting, omitting, opting, orbiting, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, perfecting, permitting, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, porting, posting, pouting, predicting, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, profiting, prohibiting, projecting, promoting, prompting, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, readjusting, reasserting, rebutting, recanting, recasting, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recruiting, redacting, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regretting, reigniting, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, rejecting, relating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renting, repainting, repeating, replanting, reporting, representing, reprinting, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotting, rusting, salting, saluting, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, selecting, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, starting, stating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, toasting, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underreporting, underwriting, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, vacating, vaulting, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-g-i-i-i-n-n-r-t-t" | |
-3 letters: agitating, antiaging, attaining, intrigant, nitrating. | |
-4 letters: antiarin, attiring, graining, granting, gritting, igniting, tainting, training, triaging. | |
-5 letters: airting, antiair, gaining, gaiting, girning, girting, granita, grating, ignatia, ingrain, intrant, raining, ranging, ranting, ratting, ringgit, ringing, tanging, tarting, tinging, tinting, titania, trining. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-g-i-i-i-n-n-r-t-t" | |
+2 letters: ingratiatingly, uningratiating. | |
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