probative

English

Adjective

probative (comparative more probative, superlative most probative)

1. (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

• disprobative
• prejudicial

Translations

tending to prove a particular proposition

• Armenian: ապացուցողական (hy) (apacʻucʻoġakan)
• Bulgarian: доказателствен (dokazatelstven)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有證明力的／有证明力的 (yǒu zhèngmínglì de)

• Finnish: todistusvoimainen
• Hungarian: bizonyító erejű
• Russian: доказа́тельный (ru) (dokazátelʹnyj)

Italian

Adjective

probative

1. feminine plural of probativo