approving

Synonyms

admiring, applauding, appreciative, commendatory, complimentary, favorable, friendly, good, positive;

Antonyms

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

Near Antonyms

captious, carping, caviling (or cavilling), censuring, critical, faultfinding, hypercritical, overcritical;

belittling, contemptuous, disdainful, disparaging, scornful, slighting;

Related Words

accepting, warm;

encomiastic, eulogistic, flattering, laudative, laudatory, panegyrical, praiseful;

respectful, supportive, sympathetic;

adoring, adulatory, idolizing, worshipful, worshipping (also worshiping);

advisory, recommendatory;