Synonyms of appreciative

appreciative 1 of 2

adjective

1

as in positive

expressing approval

his latest novel has received a number of appreciative reviews

Synonyms & Similar Words

• positive
• favorable
• good
• friendly
• admiring
• approving
• complimentary
• supportive
• commendatory
• applauding
• accepting
• warm
• sympathetic
• respectful
• approbatory
• praiseful
• laudatory
• flattering
• eulogistic
• adoring
• worshipful
• hagiographical
• panegyrical
• hagiographic
• encomiastic
• adulatory
• laudative
• advisory
• worshipping
• worshiping
• recommendatory
• idolizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unappreciative
• negative
• unfavorable
• adverse
• derogatory
• uncomplimentary
• unfriendly
• unflattering
• disapproving
• depreciative
• depreciatory
• inappreciative
• critical
• captious
• hypercritical
• overcritical
• contemptuous
• faultfinding
• disdainful
• scornful
• censuring
• disparaging
• belittling
• slighting
• carping
• cavilling
• caviling

2

as in thankful

feeling or expressing gratitude

very appreciative after we helped him change his flat tire

Synonyms & Similar Words

• thankful
• grateful
• glad
• thanking
• indebted
• obliged
• appreciatory
• delighted
• beholden
• pleased
• contented
• satisfied
• gratified
• tickled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ungrateful
• unappreciative
• thankless
• rude
• thoughtless
• inappreciative
• ungracious
• inhospitable

appreciativeness

2 of 2

noun

as in gratitude

acknowledgment of having received something good from another

a note expressing their appreciativeness of all that we had done for them

Synonyms & Similar Words

• gratitude
• appreciation
• thanks
• thankfulness
• gratefulness
• satisfaction
• acknowledgement
• indebtedness
• thanksgiving
• recognition
• gratification
• acknowledgment
• tribute

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ingratitude
• ungratefulness
• thanklessness
• unappreciation