plausive

1. 1.

   expressing or manifesting praise or approval

   “approbative criticism”

   “an affirmative nod”

   Synonymsapprovingaffirmativeapprobativeapprobatory

   Similarfavorable

Other forms of plausive

comparative

plausiver·

superlative

plausivest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about plausive

What does plausive mean?

plausive means "expressing or manifesting praise or approval".

How many syllables are in plausive?

plausive has 2 syllables: plau-sive. The stress falls on "plau".

What is another word for plausive?

Close synonyms include approving, affirmative, approbative, approbatory. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plausive a common word?

plausive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.