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Flatter vs Glad - What's the difference?

flatter | glad |

As adjectives the difference between flatter and glad

is that flatter is comparative of flat while glad is pleased, happy, gratified.

As verbs the difference between flatter and glad

is that flatter is to compliment someone, often insincerely and sometimes to win favour while glad is to make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.

As a noun flatter

is a type of set tool used by blacksmiths.

flatter

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(wikipedia flatter) (en noun)
  • A type of set tool used by blacksmiths.
  • A flat-faced fulling hammer.
  • A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips such as watch springs.
  • Someone who flattens, purposely or accidently. Also flattener.
  • (British, NZ, slang) Someone who lives in a rented flat.

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • (flat)

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) flatteren, . More at (l).

    Verb

    (en-verb) (transitive'' and ''intransitive )
  • to compliment someone, often insincerely and sometimes to win favour
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxix. 5
    • A man that flattereth his neighbour, spreadeth a net for his feet.
  • * Prescott
    • Others he flattered by asking their advice.
  • to enhance someone's vanity by praising them
  • to portray something to advantage.
    • Her portrait flatters her.
  • to convey notions of the facts that are believed to be favorable to the hearer without certainty of the truthfulness of the notions conveyed.
    • Related terms
    * flattery * flatterer

    glad

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Pleased, happy, gratified.
  • :
  • *(Bible), (w) x.1:
  • *:A wise son maketh a glad father.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Glad am I that your highness is so armed.
  • *
  • *:"I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."
  • (lb) Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness.
  • *Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
  • *:Her conversation / More glad to me than to a miser money is.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Glad' evening and ' glad morn crowned the fourth day.

    • Usage notes

    The comparative "gladder" and superlative "gladdest" are not incorrect but may be unfamiliar enough to be taken as such. In both American and British English, the forms "more" and "most glad" are equally common in print and more common in daily speech.

    Antonyms

    * sorrowful * sad * downcast * peevish * cranky * heavy * depressed

    Derived terms

    * engladden * gladden * gladly

    Verb

    (gladd)
  • To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.
  • * Dryden
    • that which gladded all the warrior train
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Each drinks the juice that glads the heart of man.
  • * 1922 , , Epithalamium , line 3
    • God that glads the lover's heart

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