| 单词 | unflattering |
| 释义 | unflattering (once / 10716 pages) adj Unflattering things make you look bad, like an unflattering photograph your dad takes while you're eating a cheeseburger or the unflattering review of your band's first concert. If the light is unflattering, it'll make people look tired or pale, or cast strange shadows that cause pictures you take of them to look terrible. An unflattering movie review makes the film sound boring or badly acted. When something is flattering, it compliments someone, or shows a person or a thing in its very best light, from the Old French root flater, "caress." Add the "not" prefix un-, and you get unflattering. WORD FAMILYunflattering: unflatteringly+/flatter: flattered, flatterer, flattering, flatters, flattery/flatterer: flatterers/flattering: flatteringest, flatteringly, unflattering/flattery: flatteries USAGE EXAMPLESHe grows a fat, rounded, deeply unflattering Yukon Cornelius beard. Time(Dec 20, 2016) But Green, who is black, argued she was removed because of unflattering news. Washington Times(Dec 02, 2016) Van Buren was a state department employee until he wrote an unflattering book about US failures in Iraq. The Guardian(Dec 01, 2016) adj showing or representing unfavorably an unflattering portrait Syn|Ant uncomplimentary flattering showing or representing to advantage adulatoryobsequiously complimentary becomingdisplaying or setting off to best advantage ingratiating, ingratiatory, insinuatingcalculated to please or gain favor |
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