Word Meanings - FLOUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To mock or insult; to treat with contempt. Phillida flouts me. Walton. Three gaudy standarts lout the pale blue sky. Byron.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FLOUT)

• Flaunt Boast
• vaunt
• flout
• flutter
• flounce
• display
• flourish
• parade
• figure
• Jeer
• Sneer
• taunt
• scoff
• deride
• scout
• mock
• rally
• banter

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FLOUT)

• Compliment
• flatter
• panegyrize
• eulogize

Related words: (words related to FLOUT)

• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• VAUNT
  To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag. Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. Gov. of Tongue.
• TAUNTER
  One who taunts.
• BOASTFUL
  Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.
• FLOUTER
  One who flouts; a mocker.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• FLUTTER
  1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
• VAUNTER
  One who vaunts; a boaster.
• SNEER
  1. To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression. 2. To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively. I could be content to be a little sneared at. Pope. 3. To show mirth awkwardly. Tatler. Syn.
• RALLY
  To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
• FLATTERINGLY
  With flattery.
• FLAUNTINGLY
  In a flaunting way.
• DERIDER
  One who derides, or laughs at, another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer.
• TAUNT
  Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts. Totten.
• SCOFFERY
  The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery. Holinshed.
• FLOURISHINGLY
  , adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.
• FLAUNT
  To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show. You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot. Arbuthnot. One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. Pope.
• TAUNTING
  from Taunt, v. Every kind of insolent and taunting reflection. Burke.
• SUTURALLY
  In a sutural manner.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• PASTORALLY
  1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.
• ORALLY
  1. In an oral manner. Tillotson. 2. By, with, or in, the mouth; as, to receive the sacrament orally. Usher.
• AVAUNTOUR
  A boaster. Chaucer.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• LITERALLY
  1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh. 2. With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally.
• CONFIGURE
  To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley.
• WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
  Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.