approbative
[ap-ruh-bey-tiv, uh-proh-buh-]
- approving; expressing approbation.
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Also ap·pro·ba·to·ry [uh-proh-buh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] /əˈproʊ bəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/.
Origin of approbative
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Related Words for approbative
appreciative, congratulatory, respectful, polite, sympathetic, positive, encouraging, benign, agreeable, supportive, flattering, acclamatory, approbatory, commendatory, adulatory, approbative, encomiastic, eulogistic, laudative, panegyricalExamples from the Web for approbative
Historical Examples of approbative
A small victory thus won acts on them like the good dinner to the Alimentive man, or flattery to the Approbative person.
The Psychology of SalesmanshipWilliam Walker Atkinson
And the approbative shouts of his half-intoxicated auditors filled his simple soul with delight and pride.
Almayer's FollyJoseph Conrad