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laudatory adjective [ ˈlɔːdət(ə)ri ]

• (of speech or writing) expressing praise and commendation.
• "enthusiastic and laudatory articles"
Similar: full of praise, complimentary, congratulatory, praising, extolling, acclamatory, adulatory, commendatory, admiring, approving, approbatory, flattering, celebratory, glorifying, eulogizing, eulogistic, panegyric, panegyrical, fulsome, glowing, rave, encomiastic, encomiastical,
Opposite: disparaging, damning,
Origin: mid 16th century: from late Latin laudatorius, from laudat- ‘praised’, from the verb laudare (see laud).


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