adulatory
Full of worship
Adulatory means excessively praising or flattering, often to the point of seeming insincere: adulatory reviews, an adulatory biography.
The word suggests praise that goes beyond deserved admiration into fawning territory.
Someone offering adulatory comments may be genuinely starstruck or strategically currying favor.
Servilely attentive to superiors
- unctuousExcessively and insincerely earnest
- servileExcessively submissive, lacking independence
- smarmyInsincerely ingratiating
- oleaginousUnpleasantly ingratiating or greasy
ingratiating · bootlicking · toadying · groveling · kowtowing · apple-polishing · brown-nosing · slavish
Excessive insincere flattery
- gushingFlowing out forcefully
- effusiveUnrestrainedly emotional in expression
- fulsomeExcessively flattering, distastefully so
- hyperbolicExaggerated beyond reason
extravagant · overblown · over-the-top · immoderate · lavish · grandiloquent · bombastic · rhapsodic
Expressing strong approval
- commendatoryExpressing praise or approval
- panegyricElaborate formal tribute speech
- eulogisticFormally and lavishly complimentary
- encomiasticFormally and lavishly complimentary
acclamatory · celebratory · complimentary · approving · appreciative · admiring · reverential · glorifying
obsequious
Servilely attentive to superiors
- unctuousExcessively and insincerely earnest
- servileExcessively submissive, lacking independence
- smarmyInsincerely ingratiating
oleaginous · ingratiating · bootlicking · toadying · groveling · kowtowing · apple-polishing · brown-nosing · slavish · subservient
fawning
Excessive insincere flattery
- gushingFlowing out forcefully
- effusiveUnrestrainedly emotional in expression
- fulsomeExcessively flattering, distastefully so
hyperbolic · extravagant · overblown · over-the-top · immoderate · lavish · grandiloquent · bombastic · rhapsodic · rapturous
laudatory
Expressing strong approval
- commendatoryExpressing praise or approval
- panegyricElaborate formal tribute speech
- eulogisticFormally and lavishly complimentary
encomiastic · acclamatory · celebratory · complimentary · approving · appreciative · admiring · reverential · glorifying · exalting
adulatorydisparaging
Expressing negative judgment
critical · contemptuous · defamatory · condemnatory · scathing