creditable

[ kred-i-tuh-buhl ]

/ ˈkrɛd ɪ tə bəl /

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adjective

bringing or deserving credit, honor, reputation, or esteem.

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OTHER WORDS FOR creditable

praiseworthy, meritorious, estimable, honorable.

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Origin of creditable

First recorded in 1520–30; credit + -able

OTHER WORDS FROM creditable

cred·it·a·ble·ness, cred·it·a·bil·i·ty, nouncred·it·a·bly, adverbnon·cred·it·a·ble, adjectivenon·cred·it·a·ble·ness, noun

non·cred·it·a·bly, adverbun·cred·it·a·ble, adjectiveun·cred·it·a·ble·ness, nounun·cred·it·a·bly, adverb

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH creditable

credible, creditable

Words nearby creditable

credenza, credibility, credibility gap, credible, credit, creditable, credit account, credit bureau, credit card, credit crunch, credit default swap

How to use creditable in a sentence

Any increase above that baseline is additional and creditable.
The California Air Resources Board Challenges Our Carbon Credits Investigations. We Respond.|by Lisa Song, ProPublica, and James Temple, MIT Technology Review|May 12, 2021|ProPublica
Discredited voices get just as much love from the First Amendment as creditable ones, so the Cheneys can say whatever they want.
The Cheneys’ Permanent War|Heather Hurlburt|June 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Not many would disagree that Clapper has done a creditable job at ODNI.
Spy Chief James Clapper: We Can’t Stop Another Snowden|Eli Lake|February 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The poorest creditable person of either sex would be ashamed to appear in public without them.
What We Can Learn From Rioting in Sweden|Megan McArdle|May 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Smith did a creditable job narrating Pershing's (unsuccessful) 1916 expedition in pursuit of Pancho Villa.
David's Bookclub: Until the Last Trumpet Sounds|David Frum|December 24, 2012|DAILY BEAST
There were fine reporters such as Matthew Lysiak of the New York Daily News doing creditable work up there.
Curse the Media in Newtown for Doing Too Little, Too Late on Guns|Michael Daly|December 20, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Those whose intentions were strictly creditable, by some malignancy of fate, possessed no influence whatever.
Dope|Sax Rohmer
A credit—but that which is creditable to the African, cannot disgrace any into whose veins his blood may chance to flow.
The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States|Martin R. Delany
And indeed it was a creditable party; it would almost unanimously call itself, next day, a delightful one.
Hilda|Sarah Jeanette Duncan
Even the celebrated Mark Tapley would have considered the circumstances were fairly creditable.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie|George Brenton Laurie
Sometimes there is more cry than wool in it; but taken altogether, and considering the place, it is creditable.
Our Churches and Chapels|Atticus

British Dictionary definitions for creditable

creditable

/ (ˈkrɛdɪtəbəl) /

adjective

deserving credit, honour, etc; praiseworthy

obsolete credible

Derived forms of creditable

creditableness or creditability, nouncreditably, adverb

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