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applauding

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of applauding

expressing approval

a student encouraged by his teacherʼs applauding comments

Synonyms of applauding

admiring, appreciative, approbatory, approving, commendatory, complimentary, favorable, friendly, good, positive

Words Related to applauding

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 of applauding

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

belittling, contemptuous, disdainful, disparaging, scornful, slighting

Antonyms of applauding

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

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