Synonyms for admirable
ˈæd mər ə bəlad·mirable

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1. admirableadjective

   deserving of the highest esteem or admiration

   "an estimable young professor"; "trains ran with admirable precision"; "his taste was impeccable, his health admirable"

   Antonyms:
   contemptible, displeasing

2. admirableadjective

   inspiring admiration or approval

   "among her many admirable qualities are generosity and graciousness"

   Antonyms:
   displeasing, contemptible

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1. admirableadjective

   Synonyms:
   [Rare.] wonderful, surprising, striking, astonishing

2. admirableadjective

   Synonyms:
   excellent, incomparable, inimitable, fine, rare, transcendent, matchless, perfect, first-rate, worthy of admiration

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1. List of paraphrases for "admirable":

   impressive, commendable, remarkable, laudable, excellent, wonderful

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1. Hiroshi Takahashi:

   The new emperor has an admirable personality and I hope he creates a fine royal household that expresses his own personality.

2. unknown:

   There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye-to-eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

3. William Shakespeare:

   What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god

4. George Will:

   The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others -- this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.

5. Sean O'Faolain:

   There is only one admirable form of the imagination the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.