appreciative
[uh-pree-shuh-tiv, -shee-uh-, -shee-ey-]
- feeling or showing appreciation: an appreciative audience at the concert.
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Origin of appreciative
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Examples from the Web for appreciative
Contemporary Examples
The ‘Factor’ host told an appreciative audience of Manhattan ‘folks’ Wednesday what he really thinks of his coworkers.
Filat said Moldova was appreciative of U.S. assistance but more help, especially on the security side, would surely be welcomed.
I am so appreciative for the ability to be able to provide services, as every affiliate is.
Daughters Malia and Sasha are appreciative of the president's uptick in fashion-forwardness too.
The audience at both showings I attended burst into appreciative applause, alive to the fact that they were being teased.
Historical Examples
They all laughed, not boisterously, actually an appreciative laugh.
Ester Ried Yet SpeakingIsabella Alden
The Leopard Woman sat her donkey, and surveyed it all with appreciative eyes.
The Leopard WomanStewart Edward White
His lordship, remember, never lacked an appreciative eye for a fine woman.
The SnareRafael Sabatini
But the appreciative reading of any work of literature cannot thus be prescribed.
College TeachingPaul Klapper
The author is an appreciative Englishman, and tells his story well.
Afloat on the OhioReuben Gold Thwaites
appreciative
appreciatory
- feeling, expressing, or capable of appreciation
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Word Origin and History for appreciative
adj.
1650s (implied in appreciatively); see appreciate + -ive. Related: Appreciativeness.
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