Synonyms for flirt
flɜrt

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. coquette, flirt, vamp, vamper, minx, tease, prickteaser(noun)

   a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men

   Synonyms:
   ribbing, vexer, prickteaser, tease, teasing, coquette, flirtation, annoyer, minx, coquetry, vamp, vamper, teaser, tantalization, flirting, toying, dalliance

2. flirt, flirting, flirtation, coquetry, dalliance, toying(verb)

   playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest

   Synonyms:
   vamper, toying, minx, flirting, tease, vamp, dalliance, flirtation, coquetry, prickteaser, trifling, coquette, dawdling

3. chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash(verb)

   talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions

   "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women"

   Synonyms:
   crush, womanise, court, squelch, solicit, play, dally, coquette, coquet, butterfly, romance, comminute, dawdle, toy, woo, bray, womanize, grind, squeeze, philander, crunch, mash, chat up, squash, trifle

4. dally, toy, play, flirt(verb)

   behave carelessly or indifferently

   "Play about with a young girl's affection"

   Synonyms:
   recreate, make for, bring, wager, play, dally, work, meet, take on, coquette, coquet, butterfly, romance, wreak, dawdle, toy, bet, roleplay, playact, run, fiddle, spiel, diddle, philander, act, represent, mash, chat up, encounter, trifle, act as

Wiktionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. flirt(verb)

   Synonyms:
   tease, coquet

   Antonyms:
   belittle

2. flirt(verb)

   pert; wanton

   Synonyms:
   coquet, tease

   Antonyms:
   belittle

3. flirt(verb)

   To jeer at; to mock.

   Synonyms:
   coquet, tease

   Antonyms:
   belittle

4. flirt(verb)

   To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.

   Synonyms:
   coquet, tease

   Antonyms:
   belittle

5. flirt(verb)

   To blurt out.

   Synonyms:
   tease, coquet

   Antonyms:
   belittle

6. flirt(verb)

   To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way.

   Synonyms:
   tease, coquet

   Antonyms:
   belittle

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. flirt(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   throw (with a jerk), toss, fling, pitch, hurl, chuck, shy

2. flirt(v. n.)

   Synonyms:
   coquet, philander, make love, make a show of love, affect to be in love, play at courtship

3. flirt(n.)

   Synonyms:
   coquette, jilt

4. flirt(n.)

   Synonyms:
   jerk, sudden fling

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. flirt(n)

   Synonyms:
   coquette, jilt, jill

2. flirt(v)

   Synonyms:
   coquet, philander

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How to use flirt in a sentence?

1. Mitch McConnell:

   The bare minimum number is ... closer to 10,000, that's what you really need, to continue to flirt with the idea that it's not going to continue only encourages the other side and emboldens the other side.

2. Le Drian:

   This initiative is unwelcome. It shows a sort of irritation, it is always dangerous to flirt with the red lines, but the initiative taken ... remains totally within the framework of the Vienna (nuclear) deal.

3. Justin Chase Campbell:

   After love is lost only thing left to flirt with are the facts.

4. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:

   Excuse me, for I must speak plainly. If you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits, and of teaching her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of her life, she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment. Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself or her family ridiculous; a flirt, too, in the worst and meanest degree of flirtation; without any attraction beyond youth and a tolerable person; and, from the ignorance

5. Victor Hugo:

   God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.

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