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commendable is an adjective and adverb meaning "worthy of high praise". It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
in an admirable manner
“the children's responses were admirably normal”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for commendable come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.