adjective
- Worthy of high praise.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: applaudable, laudable, praiseworthy
adverb
- In an admirable manner.
- usage: "the children's responses were admirably normal"
- synonyms: admirably, laudably, praiseworthily
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