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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. capable of winning favor;
- Example: "with open arms and an ingratiating smile"

2. calculated to please or gain favor;
- Example: "a smooth ingratiating manner"
[syn: ingratiating, insinuating, ingratiatory]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

ingratiating \ingratiating\ adj. 1. capable of winning favor; as, with open arms and an ingratiating smile. [WordNet 1.5] 2. calculated to please or gain favor; as, an unctuous, ingratiating manner. Syn: ingratiatory. [WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ingratiate \In*gra"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ingratiated; p. pr. & vb. n. Ingratiating.] [Pref. in- in + L. gratia. See Grace.] [1913 Webster] 1. To introduce or commend to the favor of another; to bring into favor; to insinuate; -- used reflexively, and followed by with before the person whose favor is sought. [1913 Webster] Lysimachus . . . ingratiated himself both with Philip and his pupil. --Budgell. [1913 Webster] 2. To recommend; to render easy or agreeable; -- followed by to. [Obs.] --Dr. J. Scott. [1913 Webster] What difficulty would it [the love of Christ] not ingratiate to us? --Hammond. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ingratiating adj 1: capable of winning favor; "with open arms and an ingratiating smile" 2: calculated to please or gain favor; "a smooth ingratiating manner" [syn: ingratiating, insinuating, ingratiatory]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

62 Moby Thesaurus words for "ingratiating": abject, adulatory, apple-polishing, backscratching, beggarly, bland, bootlicking, brown-nosing, buttery, cajoling, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, deferential, disarming, fair-spoken, fawning, fine-spoken, flattering, footlicking, fulsome, glib, groveling, hangdog, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, insinuating, insinuative, mealymouthed, obeisant, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, on bended knee, parasitic, prostrate, saccharine, servile, silken, silky, slimy, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, smug, sniveling, soapy, soft-spoken, sponging, suave, suave-spoken, sugary, sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, truckling, unctuous, wheedling