Compliment

Noun

 * 1) An expression of praise, congratulation, encouragement, or respect.
 * 2)  Good wishes.

Verb

 * 1)  To pay a compliment; to express a favorable opinion.

Adjectives for Compliment
genial; pleasant; admirable; handsome; rare; high; generous; apt; polite; fervid; sincerest; respectful; justified; honest; delicate; smooth-tongued; high-flown; flowery; stilted; grudging; left-handed; fulsome; dubious; youthful; peculiar; unphilosophical; noncommittal; questionable; erudite; abstracted; subtle; appropriate; gentle; awkward; indirect; feminine; gratifying; truculent; stipulated; supreme; piquant; munificent; bombastic; professional; superlative; gallant; ephemeral; deferential; mawkish; double-barreled; formal; undeniable; sugared; two-edged; exaggerated; idle; well-turned; tactful; novel; affectionate; ghastly; hyperbolic.

Verbs for Compliment
accept—; acknowledge—;  allow—;  bestow—; deliver—; disdain—;  expect—; extend—; favor with—; greet with—; imply—; pay—; present—; receive—; return—; turn—; —commends; —flatters; —pleases; —praises; —soothes.

Adverbs for Compliment
warmly; genially; admirably; handsomely; rarely; highly; generously; aptly; fervidly; sincerely; delicately; stiltedly; grudgingly; fulsomely; dubiously; eruditely; subtly; appropriately; awkwardly; indirectly;  gratifyingly;   bombastically; supremely; piquantly; professionally; superlatively; gallantly; deferentially; mawkishly; formally; undeniably; exaggeratedly; idly; affectionately; hyperbolically.

Derived terms

 * with compliments

Thesaurus
TL, acclaim, accolade, adulate, adulation, applaud, benevolence, beslobber, beslubber, best wishes, blandish, blandishment, blarney, bless, blessing, blessings, boon, bouquet, bunkum, cajole, cajolement, cajolery, commend, commendation, compliments, conceit, congratulate, congratulation, congratulations, encomium, eulogy, eyewash, fair words, favor, fawn upon, fawning, felicitate, felicitation, flatter, flattering remark, flattery, give a bouquet, good wishes, gratulate, gratulation, grease, greetings, hail, hand it to, homage, honeyed phrases, honeyed words, honor, incense, largess, laud, laudation, make fair weather, oil, oil the tongue, orchids, palaver, pay a compliment, polite commendation, posy, praise, present, pretty lies, recommend, regards, rejoice with, respects, salutations, slobber over, soap, soft soap, sweet nothings, sweet talk, sweet words, sycophancy, take off, trade-last, tribute, wheedle, wheedling

Pronunciation




Noun

 * Arabic: مجاملة
 * Bulgarian:, любезност,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: kohteliaisuus, kohteliaisuudenosoitus
 * French: compliment
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: מחמאה (makhmaa) (praise)
 * Hungarian:
 * Hungarian:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: お世辞
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: övgü
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: övgü
 * Turkish: övgü
 * Turkish: övgü

Verb

 * Bulgarian: хваля, правя комплимент
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: complimenteren, een compliment geven
 * Finnish: lausua kohteliaisuus
 * French: complimenter, faire des compliments
 * German: beglückwünschen, ein Kompliment machen
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hebrew: להחמיא (le'hakhmy')
 * German: beglückwünschen, ein Kompliment machen
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hebrew: להחמיא (le'hakhmy')


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:, gi kompliment
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: говорить комплименты
 * Spanish:
 * Spanish: