Definition of Admirable

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Definition of Admirable
	Admirable Fitted to excite wonder; wonderful; marvelous. Having qualities to excite wonder united with approbation; deserving the highest praise; most excellent; -- used of persons or things. Related Definitions: Approbation, Deserving, Excellent, Excite, Fitted, Having, Marvelous, Most, Of, Or, Praise, Qualities, The, To, United, Used, With, Wonder, Wonderful

Admirable Quotations

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
William Shakespeare

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
Gloria Steinem

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Victor Hugo

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
Bertrand Russell

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
John Kenneth Galbraith

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
Jose Marti

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
Vladimir Nabokov

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.
Homer

Admirable Translations

admirable in Dutch is bewonderenswaardig
admirable in German is bewundernswert, bewundernswert, erstaunlich
admirable in Spanish is estupendo, admirable

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