creditable
adj/ˈkɹɛdɪtəbəl/
Etymology From credit + -able.
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.1847, Benjamin Franklin Hall, The Land Owner's Manual:
- A more creditable rumour concerned Valentino's hallmark killer glance ...1996, Giannino Malossi, Latin Lover: The Passionate South:
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.1960 March 23, “Notes and News: Two Scenes from Norfolk”, in Railway Magazine, page 214:
3
That can be assigned; assignable.
- Derived terms
- creditability, creditableness, creditably, uncreditable