Words that rhyme with revelatory

• 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"
• allegory 0
  n 1: a short moral story (often with animal characters) [syn: fable, parable, allegory, apologue] 2: a visible symbol representing an abstract idea [syn: emblem, allegory] 3: an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor
• ambulatory 0
  adj 1: relating to or adapted for walking; "an ambulatory corridor" 2: able to walk about; "the patient is ambulatory" [syn: ambulant, ambulatory] n 1: a covered walkway (as in a cloister); "it has an ambulatory and seven chapels"
• anticipatory 0
  adj 1: in anticipation [syn: anticipatory, prevenient]
• approbatory 0
  adj 1: expressing or manifesting praise or approval; "approbative criticism"; "an affirmative nod" [syn: approving, affirmative, approbative, approbatory, plausive]
• auditory 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the process of hearing; "auditory processing"; "an audile person" [syn: auditory, audile, auditive]
• category 0
  n 1: a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents" [syn: class, category, family] 2: a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme
• 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]
• conciliatory 0
  adj 1: making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet" [syn: compromising, conciliatory, flexible] [ant: inflexible, sturdy, uncompromising] 2: intended to placate; "spoke in a conciliating tone"; "a conciliatory visit" [syn: conciliatory, conciliative] [ant: antagonistic]
• 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]
• conservatory 0
  n 1: the faculty and students of a school specializing in one of the fine arts 2: a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts [syn: conservatory, conservatoire] 3: a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner [syn: conservatory, hothouse, indoor garden]
• defamatory 0
  adj 1: (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign [syn: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous]
• depository 0
  n 1: a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping [syn: depository, deposit, depositary, repository]
• 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]
• derogatory 0
  adj 1: expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house" [syn: derogative, derogatory, disparaging]
• dilatory 0
  adj 1: wasting time [syn: dilatory, laggard, poky, pokey]
• dormitory 0
  n 1: a college or university building containing living quarters for students [syn: dormitory, dorm, residence hall, hall, student residence] 2: a large sleeping room containing several beds [syn: dormitory, dormitory room, dorm room]
• glory 0
  n 1: a state of high honor; "he valued glory above life itself" [syn: glory, glorification] 2: brilliant radiant beauty; "the glory of the sunrise" [syn: glory, resplendence, resplendency] 3: an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint [syn: aura, aureole, halo, nimbus, glory, gloriole] v 1: rejoice proudly
• gory 0
  adj 1: covered with blood; "a bloodstained shirt"; "a gory dagger" [syn: bloodstained, gory] 2: accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war" [syn: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous, butcherly]
• 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
• hoary 0
  adj 1: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey- haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired] 2: ancient; "hoary jokes" [syn: hoary, rusty] 3: covered with fine whitish hairs or down [syn: canescent, hoary]
• hortatory 0
  adj 1: giving strong encouragement [syn: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatory]
• 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]
• lorry 0
  n 1: a large low horse-drawn wagon without sides 2: a large truck designed to carry heavy loads; usually without sides [syn: lorry, camion]
• 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]
• quarry 0
  n 1: a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence; "he fell prey to muggers"; "everyone was fair game"; "the target of a manhunt" [syn: prey, quarry, target, fair game] 2: a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; "a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'" [syn: pit, quarry, stone pit] 3: animal hunted or caught for food [syn: prey, quarry] v 1: extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry; "quarry marble"
• regulatory 0
  adj 1: restricting according to rules or principles; "a regulatory gene" [syn: regulative, regulatory]
• story 0
  n 1: a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children" [syn: narrative, narration, story, tale] 2: a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines" 3: a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office on?" [syn: floor, level, storey, story] 4: a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead" [syn: history, account, chronicle, story] 5: a short account of the news; "the report of his speech"; "the story was on the 11 o'clock news"; "the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious" [syn: report, news report, story, account, write up] 6: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?" [syn: fib, story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle]
• 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]
• corrie 0
  n 1: a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake [syn: cirque, corrie, cwm]
• tory 0
  n 1: an American who favored the British side during the American Revolution 2: a member of political party in Great Britain that has been known as the Conservative Party since 1832; was the opposition party to the Whigs 3: a supporter of traditional political and social institutions against the forces of reform; a political conservative
• articulatory 0
  adj 1: of or relating to articulation; "articulatory features"; "articulatory phonetics" [syn: articulatory, articulative]
• 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]
• pellitory 0
  n 1: herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers [syn: pellitory-of-the-wall, wall pellitory, pellitory, Parietaria difussa] 2: a small Mediterranean plant containing a volatile oil once used to relieve toothache [syn: pellitory, pellitory-of- Spain, Anacyclus pyrethrum]
• 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]
• cacciatore 0
• commendatory 0
• compensatory 0
• confiscatory 0
• consecratory 0
• dedicatory 0
• depredatory 0
• gyratory 0
• imprecatory 0
• incubatory 0
• innovatory 0
• aurae 0
• tori 0
• fiore 0
• fiori 0
• gregori 0
• flagellatory 0
• incantatory 0
• citatory 0
• pulsatory 0
• castigatory 0
• emigratory 0
• execratory 0

See also revelatory definition and revelatory synonyms