flattering
 (a.)諂媚的,討人懽喜的,有希望的


 Flat·ter v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flattered p. pr. & vb. n. Flattering.]
 1. To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by artful and interested commendation or attentions; to blandish; to cajole; to wheedle.
 When I tell him he hates flatterers,
 He says he does, being then most flattered.   --Shak.
    A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net for his feet.   --Prov. xxix. 5.
    Others he flattered by asking their advice.   --Prescott.
 2. To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.
 3. To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of; as, his portrait flatters him.


 Flat·ter·ing, a. That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a flattering speech.
    Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.   --Shak.
 A flattering painter, who made it his care,
 To draw men as they ought be, not as they are.   --Goldsmith.

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 flattering
      adj : tending to reveal or represent favorably [ant: unflattering]