Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unflatter

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-flat-ter
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To show or display in a bad light; to portray unfavorably.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"Well, sith thy truth unflatters me, I will believe it truth."
"He switched promptly from the escapist fantasy of young-white-male-orientated comic books to the cauterizing realism of Richard Wright, whose fiction unflatters the United States, condemning it as dehumanizing and coercively deathly for blacks (JanMohamed 2005)."
"Mainstream media “unflatters” the demos and its rulers daily."

Etymology

From un- + flatter.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

unflatters (present, singular) unflattering (participle, present) unflattered (participle, past) unflattered (past)

Synonyms

besmirch denigrate diss assassinate asperse backbite badmouth befoul belibel besmear bewray blacken

Antonyms

flatter brush up to collogue flatterize glaver gloze jolly lay it on thick make fair weather palaver preen puff

Questions

What does unflatter mean?: To show or display in a bad light; to portray unfavorably.
Where does unflatter come from?: From un- + flatter.

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