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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
ingratiation is a noun meaning "the act of gaining acceptance or affection for yourself by persuasive and subtle blandishments". It carries one recorded sense.
the act of gaining acceptance or affection for yourself by persuasive and subtle blandishments
“she refused to use insinuation in order to gain favor”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ingratiation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.