sycophant
Meaning of sycophant
noun
- One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
- One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
- An informer; a talebearer.
- To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
- To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
Information about sycophant
- The plural form of sycophant is: sycophants.
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Hyphenation of sycophant
syco-phant
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- sycophant is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
sycophant synonyms
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Translation of sycophant
- Spanish: adulador, chupamedias, sicofante
- Italian: ruffiano, struscione, lecchino
- French: fayot, frotte-manche
- Portuguese: puxa-saco
Words that rhyme with sycophant
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