1. admirable - Adjective
2. admirable - Adjective Satellite
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere 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
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
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me. Helen Hayes
Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war. Pierre Curie
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
It is admirable to consider how many Millions of People come into, and go out of the World, Ignorant of themselves, and of the World they have lived in. William Penn