adulation
/ˌædʒʊˈleɪʃən//ˌæd͡ʒəˈleɪʃən/
adulation noun: flattery; fulsome praise.
Noun
adulation (countable and uncountable, plural adulations)
- Flattery; fulsome praise.
- He was uncomfortable with the adulation from his fans.
- Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
adulation meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
adulation in Urdu
- چاپلُوسی, خُوشامَد, جھوٹی سَتائش
adulation in Bengali
- অত্যধিক তোষামোদ, চাটুকারিতা
adulation in Malayalam
- adoration, admiration, hero-worship
- അമിതസ്തുതി, അതിസ്തുതി, ആരാധന, കീർത്തനം, സ്തുതി, ഗീർണ്ണി
adulation in Kannada
- ಹೊಗಳಿಕೆ, ಶ್ಲಾಘನೆ, ಪ್ರಶಂಸೆ, ಗೌರವ
More languagesFewer languages
- adulation in Arabic
- تَمَلُّق tamalluq, مَلَق malaq
- adulation in Indonesian
- puji-pujian, puja-pujaan, pujian, pujaan
Forms of adulation
| plural | adulations |
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Origin of adulation
From French adulation, from Latin adulātio (“flattery”).
Words that rhyme with adulation
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- citation
- combination
- communication
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- constellation
- determination
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- condensation
- conversation
- deviation
- excavation
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- incarnation
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- gradation
- observation
- population
- preparation
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- rotation
- separation
- situation
- vexation
- vindication
- accumulation
- administration
- aggregation
- appropriation
Questions about adulation
- What does adulation mean?
- Adulation means flattery; fulsome praise.
- What is adulation in Urdu?
- Adulation in Urdu is چاپلُوسی, خُوشامَد, جھوٹی سَتائش. See Adulation meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is adulation?
- Adulation is a noun.
- How do you pronounce adulation?
- Adulation is pronounced /ˌædʒʊˈleɪʃən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of adulation?
- The plural of adulation is adulations.
Words near adulation in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: adulation (page history and authors); adulation (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adulation (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adulation (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); adulation (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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