approving

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

showing that you believe that sb/sth is good or acceptable: He gave me an approving nod. approvingly adverb: She looked at him approvingly and smiled.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

approvingEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus approvingEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

Nearby in the dictionary

apprehensive apprentice apprenticeship apprise approach approachable approbation appropriate appropriation approval approve

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Is approving a noun, verb, or something else?

In this entry, approving is tagged as adjective.

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