英和和英

語源

From praise +‎ -worthy.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpɹeɪz.wɜː.ði/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈpɹeɪz.wɝ.ði/

形容詞

praiseworthy (comparative praiseworthier or more praiseworthy, superlative praiseworthiest or most praiseworthy)

1. Meriting praise; worthy of high praise

   Synonyms: estimable, laudable, reverend; see also Thesaurus:respectable

   • 1807 April 18, Washington Irving, “To Correspondents”, in Salmagundi‎, G. P. Putnam's sons, New York, pages 183–184:

     It is a melancholy truth that this same New York, though the most charming, pleasant, polished, and praiseworthy city under the sun, and in a word the bonne bouche of the universe, is most shockingly ill-natured and sarcastic, and wickedly given to all manner of backslidings ; for which we are very sorry, indeed.

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 128:

     No self-complacency can equal that of the selfish. Not content with its indulgence, they actually idolise it into being praiseworthy.

   • 1882, Walter Baxendale, The preacher's commentary on the book of Ruth:

     That it is a praiseworthy matter to be harboursome to strangers.

   • 2016, Joao Teixeira Lopes, Ray Hutchison, Public Spaces: Times of Crisis and Change, page 113:

     Some parts of New Zagreb is really good and praiseworthy urban planning.

使用する際の注意点

• Praiseworthier and praiseworthiest are much less common than the forms using "more" and "most".

同意語

• applaudable
• commendable
• laudable

反意語

• blameworthy

派生語

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