Thesaurus:coax

Thesaurus

coax

English

Verb

(transitive)

Sense: to persuade someone gradually by flattery or promises

Synonyms

• blandander (dated, Ireland)
• blandish
• butter up (figurative)
• cajole
• fast-talk
• canoodle (figurative)
• carny (dialect)
• coax
• collogue
• croodle (obsolete, UK, dialect)
• engle (obsolete)
• fleech (Scotland)
• honey around (figurative)
• honey up (dated, figurative)
• hum    [⇒ thesaurus] (dated, UK, slang)
• ingle (obsolete)
• inveigle
• soap (dated, slang)
• soft-sawder (idiomatic)
• soft-soap (idiomatic)
• stroke (US, figurative)
• sweet-talk (idiomatic)
• tweedle (obsolete)
• twist
• wheedle
• whilly (archaic, Scotland)
• word    [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete)

Hypernyms

• flatter    [⇒ thesaurus]
• persuade    [⇒ thesaurus]
• suck up    [⇒ thesaurus]

Coordinate terms

• bribe    [⇒ thesaurus]
• coerce
• tease

Further reading

• “615. motive” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “933. flattery” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “coax” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.