Probative
Probative adjective - Serving to give support to the truth or factualness of something.
Usage example: no dearth of probative evidence for the theory of evolution
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Synonyms for Probative
Substantiating and probative are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Substantiating" instead an adjective "Probative".
Substantiating
Substantiating adjective - Serving to give support to the truth or factualness of something.
Usage example: without some substantiating evidence, such as a stub from a bus ticket, who's going to believe your alibi?
Probative and substantiating are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Probative" instead an adjective "Substantiating".
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Related pairs
- helpful and probative
- helpful and substantiating
- beneficial and probative
- beneficial and substantiating
- supportive and probative
- supportive and substantiating
- supporting and probative
- supporting and substantiating
- auxiliary and probative
- auxiliary and substantiating
- supplementary and probative
- supplementary and substantiating
- confirmatory and probative
- confirmatory and substantiating
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