Words that rhyme with hortatory

• accusatory 0
  adj 1: containing or expressing accusation; "an accusitive forefinger"; "black accusatory looks"; "accusive shoes and telltale trousers"- O.Henry; "his accusing glare" [syn: accusative, accusatory, accusing, accusive]
• adulatory 0
  adj 1: obsequiously complimentary; "they listened with flattering interest"
• approbatory 0
  adj 1: expressing or manifesting praise or approval; "approbative criticism"; "an affirmative nod" [syn: approving, affirmative, approbative, approbatory, plausive]
• celebratory 0
  adj 1: used for celebrating
• circulatory 0
  adj 1: of or relating to circulation [syn: circulative, circulatory] 2: relating to circulatory system or to circulation of the blood
• communicatory 0
  adj 1: able or tending to communicate; "was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew"- W.M.Thackeray [syn: communicative, communicatory] [ant: incommunicative, uncommunicative]
• condemnatory 0
  adj 1: containing or imposing condemnation or censure; "a condemnatory decree" [syn: condemnatory, condemning]
• confirmatory 0
  adj 1: serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence" [syn: collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying]
• congratulatory 0
  adj 1: expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune; "a congratulatory telegram"; "the usual congratulatory crowd was conspicuously absent"; "a gratulatory address" [syn: congratulatory, gratulatory]
• deprecatory 0
  adj 1: tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark" [syn: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting]
• gustatory 0
  adj 1: of or relating to gustation [syn: gustatory, gustative, gustatorial]
• hallucinatory 0
  adj 1: characterized by or characteristic of hallucination ; "the bizarre hallucinatory dreams of fever"- Jean Stafford
• indicatory 0
  adj 1: (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly; "actions indicative of fear" [syn: indicative, indicatory, revelatory, significative, suggestive]
• justificatory 0
  adj 1: attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing [syn: defensive, justificative, justificatory] 2: providing justification [syn: justificative, justificatory, vindicatory]
• migratory 0
  adj 1: used of animals that move seasonally; "migratory birds" [ant: nonmigratory, resident] 2: habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work; "appalled by the social conditions of migrant life"; "migratory workers" [syn: migrant, migratory]
• nugatory 0
  adj 1: of no real value; "a nugatory law"
• placatory 0
  adj 1: intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions; "the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich"; "placating (or placative) gestures"; "an astonishingly placatory speech" [syn: appeasing(a), placating, placative, placatory]
• regulatory 0
  adj 1: restricting according to rules or principles; "a regulatory gene" [syn: regulative, regulatory]
• revelatory 0
  adj 1: (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly; "actions indicative of fear" [syn: indicative, indicatory, revelatory, significative, suggestive] 2: prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom [syn: apocalyptic, apocalyptical, revelatory]
• vibratory 0
  adj 1: moving very rapidly to and fro or up and down; "the vibrating piano strings"
• vindicatory 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or having the nature of retribution; "retributive justice demands an eye for an eye" [syn: retaliatory, relatiative, retributive, retributory, vindicatory] 2: given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts; "retributive justice" [syn: retributive, retributory, vindicatory] 3: providing justification [syn: justificative, justificatory, vindicatory]
• rotatory 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn [syn: rotatory, revolutionary]
• stipulatory 0
  adj 1: constituted or contracted by stipulation or agreement; "stipulatory obligations" [syn: agreed upon(p), stipulatory]
• mitigatory 0
  adj 1: moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear [syn: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative]
• supplicatory 0
  adj 1: humbly entreating; "a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness" [syn: suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory]
• undulatory 0
  adj 1: resembling waves in form or outline or motion [syn: undulatory, undulant]
• commendatory 0
• compensatory 0
• confiscatory 0
• consecratory 0
• dedicatory 0
• depredatory 0
• gyratory 0
• imprecatory 0
• incubatory 0
• innovatory 0
• flagellatory 0
• incantatory 0
• citatory 0
• pulsatory 0
• castigatory 0
• emigratory 0
• execratory 0

See also hortatory definition and hortatory synonyms