Definitions for Laudable
ˈlɔ də bəllaud·able

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. applaudable, commendable, laudable, praiseworthyadjective

   worthy of high praise

   "applaudable efforts to save the environment"; "a commendable sense of purpose"; "laudable motives of improving housing conditions"; "a significant and praiseworthy increase in computer intelligence"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. laudableadjective

   Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition.

2. laudableadjective

   Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Laudableadjective

   Etymology: laudabilis, Latin.

   1. Praise-worthy; commendable.

   I’m in this earthly world, where to do harm
   Is often laudable; but to do good, sometime
   Accounted dang’rous folly. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   Affectation endeavours to correct natural defects, and has always the laudable aim of pleasing, though it always misses it. John Locke.

   2. Healthy; salubrious.

   Good blood, and a due projectile motion or circulation, are necessary to convert the aliment into laudable animal juices. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.

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1. laudable

   Laudable refers to something or someone that deserves praise or commendation due to their actions, qualities, or achievements.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Laudableverb

   worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition

2. Laudableverb

   healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus

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

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. laudable

   Commendable-praiseworthy

   He switched of the unwanted lights in his house during earth hour thus conserving energy and contributing to a green way of life

   
   

   Submitted by Lighthouse21 on April 2, 2018  

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Laudable in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Laudable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Laudable in a Sentence

1. Craig McClure:

   The gains we have made on preventing mother-to-child transmission are laudable and to be celebrated, immediate investments are needed to get lifesaving treatment to children and adolescents who are infected.

2. Kelly Craft:

   Twenty years on, there remains nothing about the Durban declaration to celebrate or to endorse, It encourages restrictions on the freedom of expression. It exists to divide and discriminate and runs contrary to the laudable goal of combating racism and racial discrimination.

3. Robert Cecil:

   We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable.

4. Joseph Glauber:

   The idea was laudable. But I think it is a mistake to try to address farm-level problems with an emergency food program. I think the fundamental goal should be to provide good food at the lowest cost possible so that you can feed the most people.

5. Secretary Pompeo:

   Human rights advocates won great and laudable victories in our lifetimes, from the defeat of fascism, to the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, to the end of Apartheid, but that was then. The great and noble human rights project of the 20th Century is in crisis.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Laudable
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Laudable
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Laudable
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Laudable