Word Meanings - RECOMMENDABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Suitable to be recommended; worthy of praise; commendable. Glanvill. -- Rec`om*mend"a*ble*ness, n. -- Rec`om*mend"a*bly, adv.
Related words: (words related to RECOMMENDABLE)
- PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - PRAISER
1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North. - RECOMMENDATORY
Serving to recommend; recommending; commendatory. Swift. - RECOMMENDER
One who recommends. - PRAISEMENT
Appraisement. - PRAISELESS
Without praise or approbation. - RECOMMENDABLE
Suitable to be recommended; worthy of praise; commendable. Glanvill. -- Rec`om*mend"a*ble*ness, n. -- Rec`om*mend"a*bly, adv. - COMMENDABLE
Worthy of being commended or praised; laudable; praiseworthy. Order and decent ceremonies in the church are not only comely but commendable. Bacon. -- Com*mend"a*ble*ness, n. -- Com*mend"a*bly, adv. - RECOMMEND
1. To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind - PRAISEWORTHILY
In a praiseworthy manner. Spenser. - RECOMMENDATION
1. The act of recommending. 2. That which recommends, or commends to favor; anything procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception, or to secure acceptance and adoption; as, he brought excellent recommendations. 3. The state of being - WORTHY
worthi, wurÞi, from worth, wurÞ, n.; cf. Icel. verthugr, D. waardig, 1. Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous. Full worthy was he in his lordes war. Chaucer. These banished men that - PRAISE
fr. pretium price. See Price, n., and cf. Appreciate, Praise, n., 1. To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts. "I praise well thy wit." Chaucer. Let her own works praise her in the gates. Prov. - SUITABLE
Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. -- Suit"a*ble*ness, n. -- Suit"a*bly, adv. Syn. -- Proper; fitting; becoming; accordant; - RECOMMENDATIVE
That which recommends; a recommendation. - PRAISE-MEETING
A religious service mainly in song. - PRAISEFUL
Praiseworthy. - PRAISEWORTHY
Worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as, praiseworthy action; he was praiseworthy. Arbuthnot. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - OVERPRAISE
To praise excessively or unduly. - SUPERPRAISE
To praise to excess. To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts. Shak. - APPRAISE
1. To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels. 2. To estimate; to conjecture. Enoch . . . appraised his weight. Tennyson. 3. To praise; to commend. R. Browning. - LAUGHWORTHY
Deserving to be laughed at. B. Jonson. - SEAWORTHY
Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a seaworthy ship. - DISPRAISER
One who blames or dispraises. - APPRAISEMENT
The act of setting the value; valuation by an appraiser; estimation of worth.