COMMENDABLE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of commendable in English

(Definition of commendable from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of commendable

commendable
It is commendable that the author draws on qualitative and quantitative measures throughout these chapters.
The subject matter is necessarily complex, but the author makes a commendable effort to try to explain these complicated biological processes in simple language.
The military aspects are discussed with a commendable balance of description and analysis, and battles are illustrated by maps that are models of cartographic clarity.
This preference for democratic debate over elite impositions is indeed commendable.
The idea at first seems commendable, after all, wouldn't most of us want to lead happier lives?
If public works indicated efficacious and commendable governance, their disrepair was nothing short of an embarrassment.
Commendable are the small summaries in all of his chapters and subchapters so the reader can easily select and recapitulate the information and findings.
It may well be that the perils of present-minded history, in this instance driven by the commendable aspiration to combat fearsome tendencies, compromise conceptual rigor.
The series is a commendable concept: valid, timely and holistic.
This is all highly commendable and to be emulated.
This action is commendable and should be followed by other guideline authorities.
This is a commendable piece of scholarship which argues something genuinely new by mixing an impressively broad canvas and a fascinating wealth of detail.
The commendable diversity of perspectives in the volume is also one of the book's weaknesses, however.
The variety of the chapters is in many ways a commendable asset.
All of this makes the book commendable and definitely worth reading.
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Translations of commendable

in Chinese (Traditional)
值得讚揚的, 值得推崇的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
值得赞扬的, 值得推崇的…
in Spanish
digno de elogio, loable…
in Portuguese
louvável…
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övgüye değer, takdire mazhar olan…
louable…
lofwaardig…
chvályhodný…
prisværdig…
patut dipuji…
น่ายกย่อง…
đáng khen ngợi…
godny pochwały, chwalebny…
lovvärd…
patut dipuji…
lobenswert…
prisverdig, rosverdig…
такий, що заслуговує нагороди, похвали…
похвальный…
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