creditable

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Credible or believable.
    — Before receiving his testimony, the officer is required to ascertain from his own knowledge or by a creditable witness that he is a subscribing witness to the deed.
  2. That brings credit or honour; respectable.
    — The locomotive had been magnificently burnished at Norwich depot, with polished brasswork and red-painted coupling rods—all the more creditable, Dr. Allen adds, as it spent many months last winter in open store.
  3. That can be assigned; assignable.

词形变化

more creditable comparative most creditable superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
creditability creditableness creditably uncreditable

词源

Etymology tree
English credit
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English creditable
From credit + -able.
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