Word Meanings - COMMENDABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Worthy of being commended or praised; laudable; praiseworthy. Order and decent ceremonies in the church are not only comely but commendable. Bacon. -- Com*mend"a*ble*ness, n. -- Com*mend"a*bly, adv.
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- HONORABLE
1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an - HONORABLENESS
1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness. - LAUDABLE
Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus. Arbuthnot. (more info) 1. Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; - LAUDABLENESS
The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness. - WORTHY
worthi, wurÞi, from worth, wurÞ, n.; cf. Icel. verthugr, D. waardig, 1. Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous. Full worthy was he in his lordes war. Chaucer. These banished men that - COMMENDABLE
Worthy of being commended or praised; laudable; praiseworthy. Order and decent ceremonies in the church are not only comely but commendable. Bacon. -- Com*mend"a*ble*ness, n. -- Com*mend"a*bly, adv. - MERITORIOUS
Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable. And meritorious shall that hand be called, Canonized, and worshiped as a saint. Shak. -- Mer`i*to"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Mer`i*to"ri*ous*ness, n. - PRAISEWORTHY
Worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as, praiseworthy action; he was praiseworthy. Arbuthnot. - LAUGHWORTHY
Deserving to be laughed at. B. Jonson. - SEAWORTHY
Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a seaworthy ship. - RECOMMENDABLE
Suitable to be recommended; worthy of praise; commendable. Glanvill. -- Rec`om*mend"a*ble*ness, n. -- Rec`om*mend"a*bly, adv. - DISHONORABLE
1. Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base. 2. Wanting in honor or esteem; disesteemed. He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more - ILLAUDABLE
Not laudable; not praise-worthy; worthy of censure or disapprobation. Milton. -- Il*laud"a*bly, adv. Broome. - BLAMEWORTHY
Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible. -- Blame"wor`thi*ness, n. - NOTEWORTHY
Worthy of observation or notice; remarkable. - TRUSTWORTHY
Worthy of trust or confidence; trusty. -- Trust"wor`thi*ness, n. - PAINSWORTHY
Worth the pains o - THANKWORTHY
Deserving thanks; worthy of gratitude; mreitorious. For this thankworthy, if a man, for conscience toward God, endure grief, suffering wrongfully. 1 Pet. ii. 19. - DISCOMMENDABLE
Deserving, disapprobation or blame. -- Dis`com*mend"a*ble*ness, n. - UNWORTHY
Not worthy; wanting merit, value, or fitness; undeserving; worthless; unbecoming; -- often with of. -- Un*wor"thi*ly, adv. -- Un*wor"thi*ness, n.