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US
/əˈpɹiʃiˌeɪtɪv, əˈpɹiʃjətɪv/
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[ UK /ɐpɹˈiːʃiətˌɪv/ ]
[ UK /ɐpɹˈiːʃiətˌɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having or showing appreciation or a favorable critical judgment or opinion
an appreciative laugh from the audience
appreciative of a beautiful landscape -
feeling or expressive of gratitude
an appreciative word
was appreciative of his efforts
How To Use appreciative In A Sentence
- Else Lynes had also brought along her active class to perform a display item before a most appreciative audience.
- a biography ...appreciative and yet judicial in purpose
- The farmers weren't too appreciative of our efforts, but we got the job done. The Sun
- She seemed to take him in, with a benign appreciativeness, in his entirety. T. Tembarom
- He was resistant at first, but soon became a careful dresser and appreciative of his wife's flair for interior design.
- In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. he becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It hasoften been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.
- In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. he becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It hasoften been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.
- As an art form, it has survived the dynasties, the warlords, the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, the Communist Revolution, and has just about survived the restless nature of the Other Festival's unappreciative audience.
- Well," Rare Utu replied appreciatively," that's something to savor. EVERVILLE
- The reason for this highly appreciative epithet is probably that de Gennes has succeeded in perceiving common features in order phenomena in very widely differing physical systems, and has been able to formulate rules for how such systems move from order to disorder. Press Release: The 1991 Nobel Prize in Physics