appreciative
/əˈpɹi.ʃətɪv/
appreciative adjective: showing appreciation or gratitude.
Adjective
appreciative (comparative more appreciative, superlative most appreciative)
- Showing appreciation or gratitude.
- be appreciative of something
- Capable of showing appreciation.
appreciative meaning in Hindi, Malayalam and Indonesian
appreciative in Hindi
- appreciative, discerning
- रसिक rasik
- appreciative
- कृतज्ञ kŕtajña
appreciative in Malayalam
- thankful, grateful, obliged
- മതിപ്പുള്ള, വിലവയ്ക്കുന്ന, കൃതജ്ഞതാഭരിതം, നന്ദിയുള്ള, നിഭൃത, കൃതജ്ഞതാനിർഭരമായ
- sympathetic, supportive, encouraging
- പിൻതാങ്ങുന്ന, പ്രോത്സാഹിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, തുണനൽകുന്ന, അനുഭാവമുള്ള, പ്രതിസ്പന്ദമുള്ള, ദീനാനുകമ്പയുള്ള
appreciative in Indonesian
- showing appreciation or gratitude
- apresiatif
Examples of appreciative in a sentence
- His sculptured features drew appreciative looks.
- Staples gamely acknowledged her admirer with a smile that was surely as incredulous as it was appreciative.
- With an appreciative flick of her thick brows, Nikki replied with an emphatic, “Really!
Forms of appreciative
| comparative | more appreciative |
|---|---|
| superlative | most appreciative |
Origin of appreciative
From appreciate + -ive.
Words formed from appreciative
Questions about appreciative
- What does appreciative mean?
- Appreciative means showing appreciation or gratitude.
- What is appreciative in Hindi?
- Appreciative in Hindi is रसिक (rasik), कृतज्ञ (kŕtajña). See Appreciative meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is appreciative?
- Appreciative is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce appreciative?
- Appreciative is pronounced /əˈpɹi.ʃətɪv/.
Words near appreciative in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: appreciative (page history and authors); कृतज्ञ (Hindi) (page history and authors); appreciative (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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