approving
/əˈpruːvɪŋ
/adjective
Showing or feeling approval of someone or something: the wine drew approving comments from across the table...
- At fifteen he was already winning the Academie Francaise's approving attention for his poems.
- He had even smiled in an approving way at her.
- Carnegie would surely have given an approving nod to the latest generation of philanthropists.
Rhymes
- closeness
- close one's eyes to
- close one's mind to
- close (or dear) to (or near) one's heart
- close (or near) to home
- close (or shut) one's eyes to
- close (or shut) one's mind to (or against)
- close (or shut) the door on (or to)
- closeout
- close-packed
- close quarters
- closer
- close range
- close ranks
- close-ratio
- close reach
- closer settlement
- close-run
- close season
- close-set
- close shave
- close something out
- close-stool
- closet
- closet case