LAUDABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does laudable mean? 

• LAUDABLE (adjective)
  The adjective LAUDABLE has 1 sense:

1. worthy of high praise

  Familiarity information: LAUDABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAUDABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Worthy of high praise

Synonyms:

applaudable; commendable; laudable; praiseworthy

Context example:

a significant and praiseworthy increase in computer intelligence

Similar:

worthy (having worth or merit or value; being honorable or admirable)

Derivation:

laud (praise, glorify, or honor)

 Context examples 

It is a reasonable and laudable pride which resists such malevolence.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

That's a laudable proceeding on the part of our aunt, at all events, said Steerforth, when I mentioned it; and one deserving of all encouragement.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

When you told Mrs. Bennet this morning that if you ever resolved upon quitting Netherfield you should be gone in five minutes, you meant it to be a sort of panegyric, of compliment to yourself—and yet what is there so very laudable in a precipitance which must leave very necessary business undone, and can be of no real advantage to yourself or anyone else?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

For I have always borne that laudable partiality to my own country, which Dionysius Halicarnassensis, with so much justice, recommends to an historian: I would hide the frailties and deformities of my political mother, and place her virtues and beauties in the most advantageous light.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It transpired after a confused five minutes that the man had heard Gatsby's name around his office in a connection which he either wouldn't reveal or didn't fully understand. This was his day off and with laudable initiative he had hurried out "to see."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)