probative
English
Adjective
probative (comparative more probative, superlative most probative)
- (law) Tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade someone of the truth of an allegation.
- 1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, →ISBN, page 109:
- The judge had granted the DA a one-week extension with the caustic admonition that the case would be summarily dismissed if at that time probative, as opposed to prejudicial, evidence was not produced.
- 2003, Gabriel García Márquez, chapter 2, in Edith Grossman, transl., Living to Tell the Tale:
- My grandfather in person organized the file with a surfeit of sworn testimonies and probative documents […]
Antonyms
Translations
tending to prove a particular proposition
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