CORROBORATIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corroborative mean? 

• CORROBORATIVE (adjective)
  The adjective CORROBORATIVE has 1 sense:

1. serving to support or corroborate

  Familiarity information: CORROBORATIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORROBORATIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Serving to support or corroborate

Synonyms:

collateral; confirmative; confirmatory; confirming; corroborative; corroboratory; substantiating; substantiative; validating; validatory; verificatory; verifying

Context example:

collateral evidence

Similar:

supportive (furnishing support or assistance)

Derivation:

corroborate (establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts)

corroborate (give evidence for)

corroborate (support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm)

 Context examples 

So Martin went on into a thorough study of evolution, mastering more and more the subject himself, and being convinced by the corroborative testimony of a thousand independent writers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In spite of the destruction of so many invaluable negatives, there still remains in our collection a certain number of corroborative photographs showing the conditions of life upon the plateau.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the whole thing came to me in an instant, and I only needed certain corroborative proofs, which I speedily obtained.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After the first I have not condescended to show such corroborative proofs as I possess.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)