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appreciative

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of appreciative

1 expressing approval
  • His latest novel has received a number of appreciative reviews.
Synonyms of appreciative

admiring, applauding, approving, commendatory, complimentary, favorable, friendly, good, positive
Words Related to appreciative

accepting, warm

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

respectful, supportive, sympathetic

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

advisory, recommendatory
Near Antonyms of appreciative

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

belittling, contemptuous, disdainful, disparaging, scornful, slighting
Antonyms of appreciative

adverse, depreciative, depreciatory, derogatory, disapproving, inappreciative, negative, unappreciative, uncomplimentary, unfavorable, unflattering, unfriendly
2 feeling or expressing gratitude
  • very appreciative after we helped him change his flat tire
Synonyms of appreciative

glad, grateful, obliged, thankful
Words Related to appreciative

beholden, indebted

contented, delighted, gratified, pleased, satisfied, tickled

thanking
Near Antonyms of appreciative

inhospitable, rude, thoughtless, ungracious
Antonyms of appreciative

inappreciative, thankless, unappreciative, ungrateful

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