| Main Entry: | commendatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | complimentary |
Synonyms: |
acclamatory, applauding, approbatory, congratulatory, favorable, laudatory, positive, praiseful, praising |
| Main Entry: | complimentary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flattering |
Synonyms: |
adulatory, appreciative, approbative, approbatory, approving, celebrating, commendatory, congratulatory, courtly, encomiastic, encomiastical, eulogistic, fair-spoken, fawning, highly favorable, honeyed, honoring, laudatory, panegyrical, plauditory, polite, praiseful, respectful, sycophantic, unctuous, well-wishing, with high praise, with highest recommendation |
| Notes: | something is complimentary when it has the property embodied in such an expression; complementary describes an addition that produces completeness or perfection in something |
Antonyms: |
blaming, censuring, critical, denouncing, disparaging, insulting, reproachful, unflattering |
| Main Entry: | good |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | useful, adequate |
Synonyms: |
acceptable, advantageous, all right, ample, appropriate, approving, apt, auspicious, becoming, benefic, beneficial, benignant, brave, commendatory, commending, common, conformable, congruous, convenient, decent, desirable, favorable, favoring, fit, fitting, fruitful, healthful, healthy, helpful, hygienic, meet, needed, opportune, profitable, proper, propitious, respectable, right, salubrious, salutary, satisfying, seemly, serviceable, suitable, tolerable, toward, unobjectionable, wholesome |
Antonyms: |
inadequate, rotten, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | laudatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | complimentary |
Synonyms: |
acclamatory, adulatory, approbative, approbatory, approving, commendatory, encomiastic, eulogistic, flattering, laudative, panegyrical, praiseful |
Antonyms: |
blaming, castigating, critical |
| Main Entry: | acclamatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | complimentary |
Synonyms: |
admiring, approbatory, approving, commendatory, congratulatory, extolling, laudatory, praising |
| Main Entry: | approbatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | complimentary |
Synonyms: |
acclamatory, affirmative, applauding, approbative, approving, commendatory, congratulatory, laudatory, plauditory, praiseful, praising |
| Concept: | Good. |
| Category: | 3. Objects of volition |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
good, benefit, advantage; improvement; greatest good, supreme good; interest, service, behoof, behalf; weal; main chance, summum bonum, common weal; "consummation devoutly to be wished"; gain, boot; profit, harvest., boon (gift); good turn; blessing; world of good; piece of good luck, piece of good fortune; nuts, prize, windfall, godsend, waif, treasure trove., good fortune (prosperity); happiness., [Source of good] goodness [more]; utility; remedy; pleasure giving.
-adjectives
-adverbs
well, aright, satisfactorily, favorably, not amis; all for the best; to one's advantage; in one's favor, in one's interest.
-phrases
so far so good; magnum bonum.
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Antonyms: |
evil |
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