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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.

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Admirable Quotations

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

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

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

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.
Willard Van Orman Quine

Admirable Translations

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


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