flirtatious
/flɚˈteɪʃəs/
flirtatious adjective: of or pertaining to flirtation.
Adjective
flirtatious (comparative more flirtatious, superlative most flirtatious)
- Of or pertaining to flirtation.
- 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 177
- Yes 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 2013
- Having a tendency to flirt often.
- flirtatious man
flirtatious meaning in Malayalam, Kannada, Tagalog and Indonesian
flirtatious in Malayalam
- flirty, coquettish, kittenish
- പ്രേമലോലപമായ, പ്രേമചപലമായ, മോഹിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, ലളിതാഭിനയത്തോടു കൂടിയ, വിലാസത്തോടും കൂടിയ, വിലാസിനിയായ
flirtatious in Kannada
- ಹುಸಿಪ್ರಣಯದ, ಕೇವಲ ತೋರಿಕೆಗಾಗಿ ಪ್ರೇಮದ ಸೋಗುಹಾಕುವ
flirtatious in Tagalog
- having a tendency to flirt often
- malandi
flirtatious in Indonesian
- having a tendency to flirt often
- genit
More languagesFewer languages
- flirtatious in Persian
- لاسی lâsi
- flirtatious in Myanmar
- နန့် nan.
Synonyms of flirtatious
Antonyms
Forms of flirtatious
| comparative | more flirtatious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most flirtatious |
Origin of flirtatious
From flirtation + -ous.
Words formed from flirtatious
Words that rhyme with flirtatious
- gracious
- sequacious
- tenacious
- vexatious
- hellacious
- herbaceous
- ostentatious
- rapacious
- sebaceous
- vinaceous
- vivacious
- -aceous
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- acanthaceous
- alsinaceous
- audacious
- capacious
- contumacious
- cretaceous
- fallacious
- farinaceous
- inefficacious
- juglandaceous
- mendacious
- micaceous
- orchidaceous
- perspicacious
- pertinacious
- salacious
- saponaceous
- spacious
- strobilaceous
- veracious
- voracious
- Acacius
- acinaceous
- alliaceous
- amentaceous
- amylaceous
- annonaceous
- apocynaceous
- argillaceous
- atramentaceous
- avenaceous
- bardacious
- bulbaceous
- camphoraceous
- camphrous
- carbonaceous
- cetaceous
- cucurbitaceous
- curvaceous
- dicacious
- edacious
- efficacious
- erinaceous
- fabaceous
- frumentaceous
- lamentacious
- lauraceous
- liliaceous
Questions about flirtatious
- What does flirtatious mean?
- Flirtatious means of or pertaining to flirtation.
- What is flirtatious in Malayalam?
- Flirtatious in Malayalam is പ്രേമലോലപമായ, പ്രേമചപലമായ, മോഹിപ്പിക്കുന്ന. See Flirtatious meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is flirtatious?
- Flirtatious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce flirtatious?
- Flirtatious is pronounced /flɚˈteɪʃəs/.
Words near flirtatious in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: flirtatious (page history and authors); flirtatious (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); flirtatious (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.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-flirtatious.wav.
Cite this entry: “flirtatious.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/flirtatious. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.