sweet talk

1. 1.

   flattery designed to gain favor

   Synonymsblarneycoaxingsoft soap

   Broaderflattery

Questions about sweet talk

What does sweet talk mean?

sweet talk means "flattery designed to gain favor".

What is another word for sweet talk?

Close synonyms include blarney, coaxing, soft soap. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sweet talk a common word?

sweet talk is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.