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commendable

adj
/kəˈmɛndəbəl/

Etymology

From Middle English commendable, from Middle French commendable, from Latin commendabilis, from commendare (“to commend, intrust to”), from com- + mandare (“to commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand”) + dare (“to put”).

  1. derived from commendabilis
  2. derived from commendable
  3. inherited from commendable

Definitions

  1. Worthy of commendation

    Worthy of commendation; deserving praise; admirable, creditable, or meritorious.

    • Thanks, i' faith; for silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible.
    • Gareth Southgate's side had performed with commendable maturity to control Poland and a hostile crowd giving thunderous backing to their team – but it all changed one minute into four minutes of stoppage time.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at commendable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at commendable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at commendable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA