Courting Synonyms and Antonyms

Fawn over, pay attention to
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. chasing
  2. tempting
  3. proposing
  4. coquetting
  5. philandering
  6. following
  7. pursuing
  8. importuning
  9. entreating
  10. provoking
  11. alluring
  12. attracting
  13. inviting
  14. enticing
  15. beseeching
  16. addressing
  17. soliciting
  18. bidding
Antonyms:
  1. disregarding
  2. ignoring
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A man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. courtship
  2. wooing
  3. suit

Words Related to Courting

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Courting Sentence Examples

  • If he's honestly interested in me, he can come courting the proper way.

  • As heir-apparent he collected a bodyguard, and studiously courting personal popularity by a pretended interest in the administration of kingly justice, ingratiated himself with the mass.

  • If you were courting me from day one, as you said at the restaurant, then why were you so reluctant to get married?

  • Voltaire had made, however, a useful friend in another grand seigneur, as profligate and nearly as intelligent, the duke of Richelieu, and with him he passed 1724 and the next year chiefly, recasting Mariamne (which was now successful), writing the comedy of L'Indiscret, and courting the queen, the ministers, the favourites and everybody who seemed worth.

  • Duke Frederick of Austria had hitherto sheltered John's flight; but, laid under the ban of the empire, attacked by powerful armies, and feeling that he was courting ruin, he preferred to give up the pontiff who had trusted to him.

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