Corroborative
[kə'rɒbərətɪv] or [kə'rɑbə'retɪv]
Definition
(a.) Tending to strengthen of confirm.
(n.) A medicine that strengthens; a corroborant.
Editor: Ozzie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Confirmatory, corroborating.
Editor: Rae
Examples
- This is most complimentary to the virtue of Prince Bladud's tears, and strongly corroborative of the veracity of this legend. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Edison's assertions were treated with scepticism by the scientific world, which was not then ready for the discovery and not sufficiently furnished with corroborative data. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Then the whole thing came to me in an instant, and I only needed certain corroborative proofs, which I speedily obtained. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Editor: Rae