Usually means: Tending to prove or demonstrate.
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  1. probative: Merriam-Webster
  2. probative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. probative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. probative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. probative: Vocabulary.com
  6. probative: Wordnik
  7. probative: Wiktionary
  8. probative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. probative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. probative: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. probative: Dictionary.com
  12. Probative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Probative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. probative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. probative: Rhymezone
  16. Probative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. probative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. probative: FreeDictionary.org
  19. probative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. probative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. probative: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. probative: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. probative: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. probative: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. probative: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (probative)

▸ adjective:  (law) Tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade someone of the truth of an allegation.

Similar:
probatory, convincing, arguable, provable, evincive, probable, persuasory, persuasive, proveable, convictive, more...

Opposite:
improbative, unproven, unconvincing, unpersuasive

Phrases:
probative value, probative facts, probative value of information, sufficient probative value, more...

Adjectives:
more, highly, reliable, less, contraband, only, very, far, peculiarly

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Similar:
probatory, convincing, arguable, provable, evincive, probable, persuasory, persuasive, proveable, convictive, more...

Opposite:
improbative, unproven, unconvincing, unpersuasive

Phrases:
probative value, probative facts, probative value of information, sufficient probative value, more...

Adjectives:
more, highly, reliable, less, contraband, only, very, far, peculiarly



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