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noun | verb complimentcompliment1 /ˈkɑmpləmənt/ ●●○ noun ETYMOLOGYcompliment1Origin: 1600-1700 French Italian, from Spanish cumplimiento, from cumplir to complete, do what is needed, be polite ► paying ... compliments He’s always paying her compliments (=telling her she looks nice, did something well, etc.) and buying her flowers. ► fishing for compliments Mandy’s always fishing for compliments (=trying to get people to say something nice about her). 1[countable] a remark that expresses admiration for someone or something: “You look great!” “Thanks for the compliment.”compliment on Paula got a lot of compliments on her dress. He’s always paying her compliments (=telling her she looks nice, did something well, etc.) and buying her flowers. Mandy’s always fishing for compliments (=trying to get people to say something nice about her).2take something as a compliment if you take something as a compliment, you are pleased with what someone has said, even though it really was not very nice: I said he was a workaholic, and he seemed to take it as a compliment.3pay somebody the compliment of doing something to do something that shows you trust someone else and have a good opinion of him or her: They paid me the compliment of electing me as their representative.4compliments [plural] praise, admiration, or good wishes: Please give my compliments to the chef – the food was excellent.5(with the) compliments of somebody (also with somebody’s compliments) used to say that a person or company has sent or given something to someon: Please accept these tickets with our compliments.6a backhanded compliment (also a left-handed compliment) something that someone says to you which is nice and not nice at the same time: She’s always giving backhanded compliments like “You don’t look nearly as fat as you used to.”7return the compliment to behave toward someone in the same way that he or she has behaved toward you: They never even said hello to me, and I returned the compliment by ignoring them. [Origin: 1600–1700 French, Italian, from Spanish cumplimiento, from cumplir to complete, do what is needed, be polite] → see also complement1 noun | verb complimentcompliment2 /ˈkɑmpləˌmɛnt/ ●●○ verb [transitive] VERB TABLEcompliment |
| Present | I, you, we, they | compliment | | he, she, it | compliments | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | complimented | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have complimented | | he, she, it | has complimented | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had complimented | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will compliment | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have complimented |
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| Present | I | am complimenting | | he, she, it | is complimenting | | you, we, they | are complimenting | | Past | I, he, she, it | was complimenting | | you, we, they | were complimenting | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been complimenting | | he, she, it | has been complimenting | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been complimenting | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be complimenting | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been complimenting |
THESAURUSto say that you admire and approve of someone or something, especially publicly► praiseto say that you admire and approve of someone or something, especially publicly: The new freeway plan has been praised by local business leaders. ► congratulate to tell someone that you are happy that he or she has achieved something: He congratulated Susan on winning the contest. ► flatter to say nice things about someone, sometimes when you do not really mean it, often to get something you want: He said I was beautiful, but I think he was just trying to flatter me. ► compliment (also pay somebody a compliment) to say something nice about the way someone looks or what someone has done in order to praise him or her: He complimented her on her delicious cooking. ► extol formal to praise something very much: One of his colleagues extolled him as “a very fine human being.” ► commend formal to praise someone or something publicly or formally: The children were commended for saving the dog. ► applaud formal to publicly praise a decision, action, or idea: Business leaders applauded the government’s decision to lower taxes. to say something nice to someone in order to praise him or her: compliment somebody on something All of us complimented Joe on his cooking.compliment somebody for something Health officials were complimented for their fast action.► see thesaurus at praise1 → complement |