laudatory
adjUK /ˈlɔːdətɹi/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin laudatōrius: compare Old French laudatoire.
1
Of or pertaining to praise, or the expression of praise.
- laudatory verses
- The comparison of these two passages will probably have suggested to you the fact of the immense superiority of the satirical over the laudatory powers of Dryden.1853, Sir James Stephen, On Desultory and Systematic Reading:
- Antonyms
- derogatory, disparaging
- Derived terms
- laudatorily, overlaudatory, unlaudatory
- Related terms
- laudatories