flattered
Pleased by praise
Flattered describes the pleased feeling when someone's attention or praise suggests you matter to them.
To feel flattered is to be gratified by a compliment or honor: I'm flattered you remembered my birthday.
It can also acknowledge praise while deflecting it: I'm flattered, but I really don't deserve the credit.
Sometimes it signals suspicious pleasure—flattery implies possible insincerity.
Offered kind remarks
- praisedExpressed approval of
- delightedFeeling great pleasure
- charmedPleased or bewitched
- pleasedFeeling satisfaction or joy
gratified · tickled · beaming · glowing · elated · thrilled · overjoyed · buoyed
Caused to believe falsely
- dupedDeceived into believing
- beguiledDeceived through charm
- manipulatedControlled through cunning
- sweet-talkedPersuaded through flattery
buttered up · fooled · taken in · seduced · charmed · played · strung along · led on
Feeling gratitude expressed
- appreciativeFeeling or showing gratitude
- touchedAffected emotionally or physically
- movedChanged location or felt
- humbledReduced in status
indebted · obliged · beholden · overwhelmed · speechless · honored · blessed · privileged
Greatly respected, admired
- respectedHeld in high regard
- reveredDeeply respected, admired
- admiredRegarded with approval
- valuedHeld in high regard
recognized · acknowledged · distinguished · celebrated · lauded · acclaimed · extolled · venerated
Excessively self-satisfied
- self-satisfiedSmugly pleased with oneself
- preeningGrooming with vanity
- puffed upInflated or conceited
- swelled headExcessive self-importance
conceited · self-important · prideful · boastful · strutting · gloating · peacocking · pompous
complimented
Offered kind remarks
pleased · gratified · tickled · beaming · glowing · elated · thrilled · overjoyed · buoyed · uplifted
misled
Caused to believe falsely
- dupedDeceived into believing
- beguiledDeceived through charm
- manipulatedControlled through cunning
sweet-talked · buttered up · fooled · taken in · seduced · charmed · played · strung along · led on · snowed
thankful
Feeling gratitude expressed
- appreciativeFeeling or showing gratitude
- touchedAffected emotionally or physically
- movedChanged location or felt
humbled · indebted · obliged · beholden · overwhelmed · speechless · honored · blessed · privileged · fortunate
esteemed
Greatly respected, admired
valued · recognized · acknowledged · distinguished · celebrated · lauded · acclaimed · extolled · venerated · dignified
smug
Excessively self-satisfied
- self-satisfiedSmugly pleased with oneself
- preeningGrooming with vanity
- puffed upInflated or conceited
swelled head · conceited · self-important · prideful · boastful · strutting · gloating · peacocking · pompous · full of oneself
- fawnedgroveled, kowtowed, toadied, curried favor, bootlicked
- grovelingfawned, kowtowed, prostrated, bootlicked, toadied
- flatter oneselfHold inflated self-opinion
flatter, flattery, flattering, flatterer, flatters, self-flattery