laudatory

Speech parts

1. laudatory - Adjective

2. laudatory - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining praise, or to the expression of praise; as, laudatory verses; the laudatory powers of Dryden.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

praising praiseful good positive favorable praise sympathetic enthusiastic polite glowing approving respectful complimentary flattering appreciative
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Antonyms

derogatory disparaging attack accursed chastise critical
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Related terms

laudatories

Anagrams

adulatory

Examples

But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews. Laurence Housman

a laudatory remark Source: Internet

A laudatory article concluded, “What he cannot accomplish with ordinary regulation, Kessler hopes to accomplish with fear.” Source: Internet

Beckett's 1930 essay Proust was strongly influenced by Schopenhauer 's pessimism and laudatory descriptions of saintly asceticism. Source: Internet

And as Biden begins to screw up, the coverage will become even more laudatory. Source: Internet

But a French acquaintance took a copy of the reply and published it with "an extravagantly laudatory epistle." Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

laudator temporis acti laudatories laudatorily Laude Laudenslager lauder