Associations to the word «Probative»

Wiktionary

PROBATIVE, adjective. (legal) Tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade someone of the truth of an allegation.

Dictionary definition

PROBATIVE, adjective. Tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation; "evidence should only be excluded if its probative value was outweighed by its prejudicial effect".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope