adular
Portuguese, verb/a.duˈla(ʁ)/
adular is spelled A-D-U-L-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese, the 97,539th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adular is a Portuguese verb meaning “to flatter; to adulate (compliment someone excessively)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “agir no sentido a agradar alguém”.
What does adular mean in English?
verb
- 1
to flatter; to adulate (compliment someone excessively)
- 2
to esteem, to have good regards for someone
- 3
to pet, to caress
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. agir no sentido a agradar alguém 2. admirar 3. fazer carícias, acariciar, acarinhar
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of adular
- adulo first-person present singular
- adulei first-person preterite singular
- adulado participle past
- adulares infinitive second-person singular
- adularmos first-person infinitive plural
- adulardes infinitive plural second-person
- adularem infinitive plural third-person
- adulando gerund
- adulados masculine participle past
- adulada feminine participle past
- aduladas feminine participle past
- adulas indicative present second-person
- adula indicative present singular
- adulamos first-person indicative plural
- adulais indicative plural present
- adulam indicative plural present
- adulava first-person imperfect indicative
- adulavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adular?
- Brazil /a.duˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.duˈla(h)]
- /a.duˈla(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to adular
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adular in Portuguese?
adular appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).