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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
admirable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
job
▪ But it still wasn't that bad ... Peter Wright has done an admirable job and not just in the set scrum.
quality
▪ It was his misfortune that what were admirable qualities in a scholar and pastor were defects in a reluctant politician.
▪ And you have to latch on to something, some admirable qualities they have.
▪ To this writer, one of Bruno's most admirable qualities was a capacity to inspire terror.
▪ Leapor's willingness to make jokes at her own expense is one of the admirable qualities of her work.
▪ His passion for work was insatiable, an admirable quality in a man.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It is an admirable book, the first to tell the whole truth about the war.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Director Andy Tennant keeps the pace moving and shows admirable restraint.
▪ It was far more admirable, he said, to approach nature with as much impersonality as possible.
▪ More importantly they have admirable zest and wide interests.
▪ On the one hand, what they do, and the energy and goodwill they bring to it, are admirable.
▪ Three times a week would be admirable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Admirable

Admirable \Ad"mi*ra*ble\, a. [L. admirabilis: cf. F. admirable.]

  1. Fitted to excite wonder; wonderful; marvelous. [Obs.]

    In man there is nothing admirable but his ignorance and weakness.
    --Jer. Taylor.

  2. Having qualities to excite wonder united with approbation; deserving the highest praise; most excellent; -- used of persons or things. ``An admirable machine.'' ``Admirable fortitude.''
    --Macaulay.

    Syn: Wonderful; marvelous; surprising; excellent; delightful; praiseworthy.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
admirable

mid-15c., "worthy of admiration," from Middle French admirable (Old French amirable), from Latin admirabilis "admirable, wonderful," from admirari "to admire" (see admiration). In early years it also carried a stronger sense of "awe-inspiring."\n

Wiktionary
admirable

a. Deserving of the highest esteem or admiration.

WordNet
admirable

  1. adj. deserving of the highest esteem or admiration; "an estimable young professor"; "trains ran with admirable precision"; "his taste was impeccable, his health admirable"

  2. inspiring admiration or approval; "among her many admirable qualities are generosity and graciousness"

Wikipedia
Admirable

Admirable may refer to:

  • Admirable class minesweeper, the largest class of minesweepers the United States Navy ordered during World War II.
  • USS Admirable (AM-136), the lead ship of her class.

Usage examples of "admirable".

The pictures with which the closet where we breakfasted was adorned were admirable more from the colouring and the design than from the amorous combats they represented.

Very admirable, that, but her coppery skin and her creamy, high-necked gownleaving nothing but her hands uncovered, yet clinging and only just barely opaque, so that it hinted at everything and revealed nothingmarked her just as clearly of the first blood of Arad Doman.

The table was laid for thirty, but before dinner Madame Goudar seated herself at the piano, and sang a few airs with the voice of a siren, and with a confidence that did not astonish the other guests as they knew her, but which astonished me extremely, for her singing was really admirable.

Robertson, though the authoress has evidently got her idea of his character through an unfavourable medium, and does not understand the full value of one of the most admirable characters I ever knew or expect to know.

Her admirable behaviour won her the esteem of all the ladies with whom she came in contact.

Northern nature united with perfect execution, admirable drawing, great knowledge of chiaroscuro, powerful colouring, and a mastery of the brush which ranged from the minutest touch to broad, free execution.

I express my gratitude, Miss Cicely, for your admirable attempt to keep my identity a secret?

Chemically the Potato contains citric acid, like that of the lemon, which is admirable against scurvy: also potash, which is equally antiscorbutic, and phosphoric acid, yielding phosphorus in a quantity less only than that afforded by the apple, and by wheat.

Konigsberg, above a hundred years before, foretold would be an admirable year, and the German chronologers presaged would be the climacterical year of the world.

He believed she might have made him an admirable copartner and practical helpmeet: he was wrong.

Daniel Brewster sat in his luxurious suite at the Cosmopolis, smoking one of his admirable cigars and chatting with his old friend, Professor Binstead.

As a good citizen he was an admirable paterfamilias, for what greater proof could he give of his love of country than by presenting it with worthy subjects in his children, and such subjects result from a good education.

The cynic Demetrius, who in my opinion was a great man even if compared with the greatest philosophers, had an admirable saying about this, that one gained more by having a few wise precepts ready and in common use than by learning many without having them at hand.

The famous Dazzler was a tallish, thin young man, with an admirable forehead and sleepy brown eyes, and was considered by less prejudiced observers to be both personable and agreeable, though he concealed his excellent brain behind a manner often bordering upon imbecility.

He was an admirable disciplined debater, was fair in his method of statement, logical in his argument, honest in his conclusions.