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
Supportive and probative are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Supportive" instead an adjective "Probative".
Supportive
Supportive adjective - Serving to give support to the truth or factualness of something.
Usage example: the jimmied window latch is supportive of the theory that there was forced entry into the house
Probative and supportive are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Probative" instead an adjective "Supportive".
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Related pairs
- helpful and probative
- helpful and supportive
- beneficial and probative
- beneficial and supportive
- supporting and probative
- supporting and supportive
- auxiliary and probative
- auxiliary and supportive
- supplementary and probative
- supplementary and supportive
- confirmatory and probative
- confirmatory and supportive
- substantiating and probative
- substantiating and supportive
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