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commendatory
adjective
Synonyms and Antonyms of COMMENDATORY
expressing approval <on the basis of several commendatory letters from his teachers, the student was admitted to the advanced studies program>
Synonyms admiring, applauding, appreciative, approbatory, approving, commendatory, complimentary, friendly, good, positive
Related Words accepting, warm; encomiastic, eulogistic, flattering, hagiographic (also hagiographical), laudative, laudatory, panegyrical, praiseful; respectful, supportive, sympathetic; adoring, adulatory, idolizing, worshipful, worshipping (also worshiping); advisory, recommendatory
Near Antonyms captious, carping, caviling (or cavilling), censuring, critical, faultfinding, hypercritical, overcritical; belittling, contemptuous, disdainful, disparaging, scornful, slighting
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