laudable

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: laud=a=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

laudable, a. [L. laudabilis: cf. OE. laudable. See Laud, v. i.].

•  Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition.  [1913 Webster]
•  Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus.  Arbuthnot.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

laudable, adj. commendable, praiseworthy.

Derivative

laudability n. laudably adv.

Etymology

ME f. L laudabilis (as LAUD)

THESAURUS

laudable

admirable, advantageous, auspicious, beneficial, benevolent, beyond all praise, bon, bonny, braw, bueno, capital, cogent, commendable, creditable, deserving, elegant, estimable, excellent, exemplary, expedient, fair, famous, favorable, fine, good, goodly, grand, healthy, helpful, kind, meritorious, model, nice, noble, notable, noteworthy, outstanding, pleasant, praiseworthy, profitable, regal, royal, skillful, sound, splendid, unexceptionable, useful, valid, very good, virtuous, well-deserving, worthy

ROGET THESAURUS

laudable

Virtue

N virtue, virtuousness, morality, moral rectitude, integrity, nobleness, morals, ethics, cardinal virtues, merit, worth, desert, excellence, credit, self-control, self-denial, well-doing, good actions, good behavior, discharge of duty, fulfillment of duty, performance of duty, well-spent life, innocence, virtuous, good, innocent, meritorious, deserving, worthy, desertful, correct, dutiful, duteous, moral, right, righteous, right- minded, well-intentioned, creditable, laudable, commendable, praiseworthy, above all praise, beyond all praise, excellent, admirable, sterling, pure, noble, whole-souled, exemplary, matchless, peerless, saintly, saint-like, heaven-born, angelic, seraphic, godlike, virtuously, adj, e merito, esse quam videri bonus malebat, Schonheit vergeht Tugend besteht, virtue the greatest of all monarchies, virtus laudatur et alget, virtus vincit invidiam.