laudable

[ law-duh-buh l ]

/ ˈlɔ də bəl /

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adjective

deserving praise; praiseworthy; commendable: Reorganizing the files was a laudable idea.

Medicine/Medical Obsolete. healthy; wholesome; not noxious.

Origin of laudable

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English word from Latin word laudābilis. See laud, -able

OTHER WORDS FROM laudable

laud·a·bil·i·ty, laud·a·ble·ness, noun laud·a·bly, adverb un·laud·a·ble, adjective un·laud·a·ble·ness, noun

un·laud·a·bly, adverb

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With laudable promptness, the speechifying began, as promised, at 11.

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The garment is laudable: both innovative and socially conscious.

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But the activists, for obvious and laudable reasons, want this option to be taken off the books in this case and for all time.

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And we endorse the principle that no goal is laudable if it increases even slightly the risk of violence against our children.

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These are telling remarks, and they show how laudable exercises in empathy can end up hurting those they intend to help.

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Why should it be culpable to steal from a resident, and laudable to do the same thing with a stranger?

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. |Various
What heart is forever exempt from the goadings of compunction and the influx of laudable propensities?

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Mr. Clyde Fitch had, at least, laudable ambitions in the direction of psychology.

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On the slightest pretext practices, plans and rules are altered and for every trivial obstacle our laudable customs are abandoned.

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There is a most amiable, laudable, and gallant spirit prevailing in these middle colonies.

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British Dictionary definitions for laudable

laudable

/ (ˈlɔːdəbəl) /

adjective

deserving or worthy of praise; admirable; commendable

Derived forms of laudable

laudableness or laudability, noun laudably, adverb

Medical definitions for laudable

laudable

[ lô′də-bəl ]

adj.

Healthy; favorable.

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