commendable

Adjective

• worthy of high praise
  • applaudable efforts to save the environment
    
  • a commendable sense of purpose
    
  • laudable motives of improving housing conditions
    
  • a significant and praiseworthy increase in computer intelligence
    

Adverb

• in an admirable manner
  • the children's responses were admirably normal
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  applaudable , laudable , praiseworthy , admirably , laudably , praiseworthily