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appreciative
adjective
ap‧pre‧cia‧tive
1
feeling or showing that you enjoy something or are pleased about it
appreciative audience/crowd
appreciative laughter/applause
2
[
not before noun
]
grateful for something
appreciative of
She was appreciative of Greg's concern for her health.
—
appreciatively
adverb
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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