Meanings
comparative more flirtatious · superlative most flirtatious
- Of or pertaining to flirtation.
flirtatious smile
3 more examples
It as not for him to stroll past the groups of watchful girls, blowing a flute made of an eagle's wing bone, as the flirtatious young bucks did.
1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, A Man Called Horse; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 177Yes yes, forgive a young woman her flirtatious pleasantries.
2013, Kazerad, Gaius: Fail to tremble with fear, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), March 08 2013flirtatious behaviour
- Having a tendency to flirt often.
flirtatious man
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivelike a coquette
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishflirt
- Englishflirtation
- Proto-Indo-European*h₃ed-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₃édosder.?
- Englishflirtatious
From flirtation + -ous.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan coqueto
- coquetohaving a tendency to flirt often
Esperanto koketa
- koketaof or pertaining to flirtation
Finnish flirttaileva
- flirttailevahaving a tendency to flirt often
French coquette
- coquettehaving a tendency to flirt often
German kokett, gefallsüchtig
- koketthaving a tendency to flirt often
- gefallsüchtighaving a tendency to flirt often
Hebrew עַגְבָנִי
- עַגְבָנִי ('agvaní)of or pertaining to flirtation
Indonesian genit
- genithaving a tendency to flirt often
Italian civettuolo
- civettuolohaving a tendency to flirt often
Māori hinehine
- hinehinehaving a tendency to flirt often
Persian لاسی
- لاسی (lâsi)having a tendency to flirt often
Polish bałamutny, zalotny
- bałamutnyhaving a tendency to flirt often
- zalotnyhaving a tendency to flirt often
- uwodzicielskihaving a tendency to flirt often
Russian коке́тливый, коке́тливый
- коке́тливый (kokétlivyj)of or pertaining to flirtation
- коке́тливый (kokétlivyj)having a tendency to flirt often
Spanish coqueto
- coquetohaving a tendency to flirt often
Tagalog malandi
- malandihaving a tendency to flirt often
Turkish flörtöz
- flörtözhaving a tendency to flirt often
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with flirtatious
Cite this entry
flirtatious. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flirtatious
“flirtatious.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flirtatious. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flirtatious,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flirtatious.
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