Etymology

adulatory

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Today it means: Exhibiting adulation; overly flattering. Full definition →

Latin adulatorius
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The story

  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromadulatorius
  2. English todayadulatory

From Latin adulatorius.

Words from the same roots

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adulatorious

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