creditable

[ kred-i-tuh-buhl ]

adjective

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

   Synonyms: honorable, estimable, meritorious, praiseworthy

creditable

/ ˈkrɛdɪtəbəl /

adjective

1. deserving credit, honour, etc; praiseworthy
2. obsolete.
   credible

Derived Forms

• ˈcreditableness, noun
• ˈcreditably, adverb

Other Words From

• credit·a·ble·ness credit·a·bili·ty noun
• credit·a·bly adverb
• non·credit·a·ble adjective
• non·credit·a·ble·ness noun
• non·credit·a·bly adverb
• un·credit·a·ble adjective
• un·credit·a·ble·ness noun
• un·credit·a·bly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of creditable¹

First recorded in 1520–30; credit + -able

Example Sentences

Any increase above that baseline is additional and creditable.

From ProPublica

Discredited voices get just as much love from the First Amendment as creditable ones, so the Cheneys can say whatever they want.

From The Daily Beast

Not many would disagree that Clapper has done a creditable job at ODNI.

From The Daily Beast

The poorest creditable person of either sex would be ashamed to appear in public without them.

From The Daily Beast

Smith did a creditable job narrating Pershing's (unsuccessful) 1916 expedition in pursuit of Pancho Villa.

From The Daily Beast

There were fine reporters such as Matthew Lysiak of the New York Daily News doing creditable work up there.

From The Daily Beast

Those whose intentions were strictly creditable, by some malignancy of fate, possessed no influence whatever.

From Project Gutenberg

A credit—but that which is creditable to the African, cannot disgrace any into whose veins his blood may chance to flow.

From Project Gutenberg

And indeed it was a creditable party; it would almost unanimously call itself, next day, a delightful one.

From Project Gutenberg

Even the celebrated Mark Tapley would have considered the circumstances were fairly creditable.

From Project Gutenberg

Sometimes there is more cry than wool in it; but taken altogether, and considering the place, it is creditable.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• admirable
• commendable
• estimable
• exemplary
• laudable
• respectable