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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
advisable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
always
▪ It is always advisable to have a training partner to assist when doing lying triceps exercises.
▪ It is always advisable to shoot with experienced models.
▪ For this reason it is always advisable in such cases to store samples under actual market conditions.
▪ It is always advisable to check on marketability as it can be tight for some smaller issues.
▪ It is always advisable, however, to test your decorative technique on the fabric.
therefore
▪ It is therefore advisable to check the particular mortgagee's requirements before finalising any documentation.
▪ It is therefore advisable for the expatriate to give advance notice to the school of when places are required.
▪ It is therefore advisable that all practice be carried out with extreme caution.
▪ It is therefore advisable to undertake normal protective backups.
▪ It is therefore advisable to switch off the fountain whenever the wind is particularly strong.
▪ It is therefore advisable to give at least one annual spring treatment to all stock prior to moving to new pastures.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ For heavy smokers, regular medical checks are advisable.
▪ It is advisable to take some warm clothing with you, as the weather can change quite suddenly.
▪ Use of the drug is not considered advisable when driving or using machinery.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A few precautions are advisable to eliminate any risk that may exist in a domestic situation.
▪ I think most members here would agree that setting time lines or deadlines is really not advisable in most cases.
▪ If the body is to remain at home it is advisable for the room to remain cool.
▪ In an urban environment, basement flats are not advisable for the single dweller.
▪ It is always advisable to have a training partner to assist when doing lying triceps exercises.
▪ There's nothing wrong with being glamorous and sexy, but leaving something to the imagination is advisable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Advisable

Advisable \Ad*vis"a*ble\, a.

  1. Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent.

    Some judge it advisable for a man to account with his heart every day.
    --South.

  2. Ready to receive advice. [R.]
    --South.

    Syn: Expedient; proper; desirable; befitting.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
advisable

1640s, from advise (v.) + -able.

Wiktionary
advisable

a. 1 (context of a course of action English) Worthy of being recommended; desirable. 2 (context of a person English) capable of being advised or willing to be advised. alt. 1 (context of a course of action English) Worthy of being recommended; desirable. 2 (context of a person English) capable of being advised or willing to be advised.

WordNet
advisable

adj. worthy of being recommended or suggested; prudent or wise; "such action is neither necessary nor advisable"; "extreme caution is advisable"; "it is advisable to telephone first" [ant: inadvisable]

Usage examples of "advisable".

On the other hand, it is not advisable to go wholly without this meal, but the food eaten should be light, easily digestible, and moderate in quantity.

This course of treatment, thoroughly carried out, will seldom fail to effect a perfect cure, without weaning the child, yet this latter course may sometimes become advisable to promote the recovery of the patient.

Should there be irritability, sneezing, or a constant discharge, it is advisable to use Dr.

Should tumors or deformities exist, it is advisable to consult a specialist.

After a thorough cleansing of the vaginal surfaces of mucus, by means of the warm or hot water, it is sometimes advisable to inject remedial fluids.

Tarquin, thinking it advisable to pursue the enemy closely while in this consternation, after sending the booty and the prisoners to Rome, piling up and burning the spoils which he had vowed to Vulcan, proceeds to lead his army onward into the Sabine territory.

Therefore, before they would have recourse to extremities, they thought it advisable to consult the senate a second time.

It would need a really hard prune every spring and more tidying would be advisable each year in late summer.

Ramses had graduated to long trousers that yearthe sudden elongation of his lower limbs having made that decision advisable on aesthetic if no other groundsand with his curly hair brushed into a rampant crest, he resembled a critical stork.

Nefret, who was, as usual, on deck, but deemed it advisable to collect Ramses myself.

I felt it advisable to keep the latter individual under my observant eyes from now on.

I hesitated, for a well-honed instinct told me it might not be advisable to inform Ramses of certain of my intentions.

Sir Robert Peel opposed the motion, and moved a series of resolutions, declaring it advisable to make such provision as should enable the crown to continue all such pensions as had existed at the accession of the late king, or had been granted by him during his reign.

May Sir George Grey proposed and carried a resolution which virtually rescinded that of Sir Eardley Wilmot, by declaring that, in the opinion of the house, it was not advisable to adopt any proceeding for the purpose of giving effect to the resolution of the 26th of that month.

Colborne, as exceptions to the class of cases fit to be included in an amnesty, there must probably among the prisoners be some flagrant and prominent cases of delinquency, which it would not be just or advisable to comprehend in the general lenity.