Word Meanings - PROMOTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tending to advance, promote, or encourage. Hume.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROMOTIVE)

• Ancillary
• Assistant
• subservient
• promotive
• auxiliary
• accessory
• conducive
• available
• useful
• applicable
• Auxiliary
• Helpful
• abetting
• aiding
• assistant
• ancillary
• assisting
• subsidiary
• helping
• Subsidiary
• helpful
• adjuvant
• favourable
• adminicular
• corroborative
• tending

Related words: (words related to PROMOTIVE)

• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• AVAILABLENESS
  1. Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. 2. Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale.
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• AIDANCE
  Aid. Aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shak.
• AIDFUL
  Helpful. Bp. Hall.
• ASSISTANCE
  1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
• ASSIST
  To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak. Syn. -- To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help.
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• TENDANCE
  1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak.
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• ABETTAL
  Abetment.
• ASSISTER
  An assistant; a helper.
• CONDUCIVENESS
  The quality of conducing.
• ABETTER; ABETTOR
  One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender. Note: The form abettor is the legal term and also in general use. Syn. -- Abettor, Accessory, Accomplice. These words denote different degrees of complicity in some deed or crime. An abettor
• TENDRESSE
  Tender feeling; fondness.
• ANCILLARY ADMINISTRATION
  An administration subordinate to, and in aid of, the primary or principal administration of an estate.
• TENDON
  A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. Tendon reflex , a kind of reflex act in which a muscle is made to contract by a blow upon its tendon. Its absence is generally
• AID-MAJOR
  The adjutant of a regiment.
• ASSISTLESS
  Without aid or help. Pope.
• HANDMAID; HANDMAIDEN
  A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• SPAID
  See SPADE
• DAYMAID
  A dairymaid.
• SAID
  imp. & p. p. of Say.
• INTENDENT
  See N
• MERMAID
  A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish. Note: Chaucer uses this word as equivalent to the siren of the ancients. Mermaid fish
• FORESAID
  Mentioned before; aforesaid.
• WAID
  Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down. Tusser.