approbatory

approbatory

adjective

Definition of APPROBATORY

expressing approval <the candidate's views on taxes received overwhelmingly approbatory nods from the conservative audience>

Synonyms admiring, applauding, appreciative, approbatory, approving, commendatory, complimentary, friendly, good, positive

Related Words accepting, warm; encomiastic, eulogistic, flattering, hagiographic (also hagiographical), laudative, laudatory, panegyrical, praiseful; respectful, supportive, sympathetic; adoring, adulatory, idolizing, worshipful, worshipping (also worshiping); advisory, recommendatory

Near Antonyms captious, carping, caviling (or cavilling), censuring, critical, faultfinding, hypercritical, overcritical; belittling, contemptuous, disdainful, disparaging, scornful, slighting

Antonyms adverse, depreciative, depreciatory, derogatory, disapproving, inappreciative, negative, unappreciative, uncomplimentary, unfavorable, unflattering, unfriendly