[ adj ] worthy of high praise <adj.all> applaudable efforts to save the environmenta commendable sense of purpose laudable motives of improving housing conditions a significant and praiseworthy increase in computer intelligence
Praiseworthy \Praise"wor`thy\, a. Worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as, praiseworthy action; he was praiseworthy. --Arbuthnot.
Channel 4 had the praiseworthy idea of commissioning three new 'operas' for television which, in the event, looked as though they set out deliberately to confirm all the worst expectations of opera-phobes, being pretentious, unmelodious and silly.
Arthur Hartman, the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow from 1981-1987, concurred that glasnost and perestroika were praiseworthy.
What is praiseworthy in Jay Gatsby, and what Nick Carraway grudgingly admires in him, is the idealism of his longings.
Mr. Judis, a senior editor at the leftist magazine In These Times, deserves credit for writing a clear and interesting account the fairness and balance of which are especially praiseworthy.