approve
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-der.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-der.
Proto-Italic *proβwos
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Proto-Italic *proβwāō
Latin probō
Latin approbōder.
Old French aproverbor.
Middle English aproven
English approve
From Middle English aproven, appreoven, appreven, apreven, borrowed from Old French aprover, approver, approuvir, appreuver (“to approve”), from Latin approbō, from ad + probō (“to esteem as good, approve, prove”). Doublet of approbate. By surface analysis, ad- + prove.
Inflected forms:
form: approves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: approving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: approved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: approved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: approve
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: approve
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: approved
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: approve
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: approvest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: approved
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: approvedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: approves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: approveth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: approved
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: approve
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: approved
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: approve
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: approved
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: approve
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: approving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: approved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: approven
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To officially sanction; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Although we may disagree with it, we must nevertheless approve the sentence handed down by the court-martial.
It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
gloss: To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We approve the measure of the administration, for it is an excellent decision.
gloss: To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: He had long burned with impatience to approve his valour.
1812–1818, Lord Byron, Child Harolde's Piligrimage
'T is an old lesson; Time approves it true.
Opportunities to approve[…]worth.
He had approved himself a great warrior.
Sore against our will did we of Witchland join with the Demons in that war, foreseeing (as hath been bloodily approved) that the issue must be but the puffing up of the Demons, who desire no other thing than to be lords and tyrants of all the world.
gloss: To consider worthy (to); to be pleased (with); to accept.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Her mother never approves of any of her boyfriends. She thinks nobody is good enough for her little girl.
Their address was in the most dutiful manner, approving of what her majesty had done toward a peace, and dissolve her parliament
They had not approved of the deposition of James.
Dad didn't approve of me, do you? I'm alive with something inside of me.
Your mother wouldn't approve of how my mother raised me. But I do, I think I do. And you're an all-American boy
gloss: To show to be worthy; to demonstrate the merits of.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
usually
examples: The first care and concern must be to approve himself to God.
Synonyms: agree with
approbate
approve
back
support
think much of
Antonyms: contradict
disapprove
oppose
Related words: praise
Derived words: approbation
approvable
approvably
approval
approved school
approvee
approvement
approver
disapprove
foreapprove
I approve this message
preapprove
reapprove
unapprove
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