Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who compliments; one given to compliments; a flatterer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who compliments; one given to complimenting; a flatterer.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who compliments.
  • noun One given to complimenting; a flatterer.

Etymologies

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compliment +‎ -er

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Examples

  • I think maybe because I myself recognize the value of the things I do for work, etc. -- but I still have insecurities about myself that prevent me from "believing" what the complimenter is saying.

    Complimentary Nuts kittenpie 2006

  • The barbed compliment, the sarcastic compliment, the compliment that turns on someone else present, the compliment that's supposed to erase months or years of ill-treatment ... and then the complimenter can turn to others and say, "I was just trying to be nice."

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2008

  • Modesty would, in fact, suggest that we wave it off, and certainly many do this, but at the same time, it seems rude to the complimenter, like giving back a gift.

    Archive 2006-07-01 kittenpie 2006

  • Modesty would, in fact, suggest that we wave it off, and certainly many do this, but at the same time, it seems rude to the complimenter, like giving back a gift.

    Complimentary Nuts kittenpie 2006

  • And the complimenter complimentor? looked disappointed.

    One Bright Star (1B*) Reignited 2006

  • A woman who is so much exalted above what she can deserve, has reason to be terrified, were she to marry the complimenter (even could she suppose him so blinded by his passion as not to be absolutely insincere) to think of the height she must fall from in his opinion, when she has put it into his power to treat her but as what she is.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • I see, one may be flattered, by undeserved compliments, into good behaviour, when we have a regard to the opinion of the complimenter.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • I love not to make disqualifying speeches; by such we seem to intimate that we believe the complimenter to be in earnest, or perhaps that we think the compliment our due, and want to hear it cither repeated or confirmed; and yet, possibly, we have not that pretty confusion, and those transient blushes, ready, which Mr. Greville archly says are always to be at hand when we affect to disclaim the praises given us.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • A vain man, a soldier and a scholar, pedantic, irritable, but in earnest; a complimenter of Emperors, a leader of the reform party, a partisan of Luther's, the friend and correspondent of Erasmus, the elective brother of Dürer.

    Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907

  • It was true it had never occurred to him to look at Susy in the light of a celestial visitant, and I fear he was just then more struck with the fair complimenter than the compliment to his companion, but he was pleased for her sake.

    A Waif of the Plains Bret Harte 1869

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