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Praiseworthiness is the quality of deserving praise — even when the thing was not a complete success. If a first try is but honest and brave, you can still talk about its praiseworthiness: it earned kind words, though it did not win. This is a long, rare, rather official noun. Most people never say it. They say “it deserves praise” or they use the easier adjective praiseworthy. You might see praiseworthiness in a careful essay or a report, where someone wants a noun for “the fact that this is worth praising.” It is not everyday talk, and it is not a word for showing off. Though actually, because it is so heavy, using it can sound a little stiff next to a simple “well done.”
值得稱讚之處
組成praiseworthy + -ness. Praiseworthy itself is praise + worthy (“deserving praise”). The -ness ending turns that adjective into a noun: the quality of being that way.
同家族的字
- praiseworthythe adjective this noun is built from
- praisethe first piece: to say something is good
- worthythe second piece: deserving
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
praiseworthinessnoun
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The state or quality of being praiseworthy.
- Being motivated to the right things without any conscious grasp of the values involved is not sufficient for praiseworthiness.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。