appreciative Definition

appreciate
verb appreciated, appreciating

1. To be grateful or thankful for something.

Thesaurus: acknowledge, thank, welcome, enjoy, be obliged, be indebted to, give thanks; Antonym: find fault with, complain, object, minimize, complain.
2. To be aware of the value, quality, etc of something.

Thesaurus: admire, value, esteem, honour, extol, praise, applaud; Antonym: denigrate.
3. To understand or be aware of something.

Thesaurus: be sensitive to, have a taste for, have the faculty for, derive pleasure from, like, enjoy, respond to, dig (slang).
usually intr
4. To increase in value.

Derivative: appreciative
adj

Feeling or showing gratitude
Thesaurus: thankful, indebted, grateful, obliged, beholden.

Derivative: appreciatively
adverb

Etymology: 17c: from Latin appretiare, from pretium price.