1,400 new words in our dictionary! — Parasocial, glow-up, promposal & more
1,400 new words in our dictionary! — More

approbations

noun

plural of approbation
as in approvals
an acceptance of something as satisfactory that plan has the approbation of the school board

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for approbations
  1. approvals
  2. favors
  3. blessings
Noun
  • Reconstructing the paper trail for that grant three years later, across board approvals, valuation reports, exercise windows and tax treatment in multiple jurisdictions, can take days per person.
    — Jeremy Bradley-Silverio Donato, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Seventeen management, investment and other entities — not including Brightline Trains Florida — elected to file for Chapter 11 late Thursday after separate boards gave their approvals, court records show.
    — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of approvals
Noun
  • Dance pop favors rigor over style; each note should hit like a fist.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The price of Brent crude, the oil benchmark Nigeria favors, has risen more than 70% since January to more than $100 this month.
    — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of favors
Noun
  • After liberation, Daniel’s family returned to Veria, counting their blessings as most of Greece’s Jewish community had been killed by German forces.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Two long blackboards remain, and the office-warming guests had covered them in blessings.
    — Afra Wang, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of blessings
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

approbation
approbations
approbatory
See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Approbations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/approbations. Accessed 1 Oct. 2026.

Copy Citation
Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

More from Merriam-Webster

Word of the Day

Listen to the pronunciation of slew

See Definitions and Examples »

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See More

Do You Need a New Language Peeve?

More Commonly Mispronounced Words

Merriam-Webster’s Great Big List of Words You Love to Hate

'A' or 'an'? What about before 'h'? An Indefinite Article Guide

Why is '-ed' sometimes pronounced at the end of a word?
See More

Popular in Wordplay

See More

7 Great Ways to Say 'Great'

The Longest Long Words List

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

12 Lovely and Unusual Words for the Natural World

Why do we 'bury the lede?'
See More

Popular

See More

Do You Need a New Language Peeve?

7 Great Ways to Say 'Great'

The Longest Long Words List
See More

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
The Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
image of the words cracker fly and sale arranged in a triangle with the word fire in the middle
Triple Play Quiz Find the word that pairs with each of the three g...
See All