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commending

ADJECTIVE

favorable

Synonyms

STRONGEST

agreeable benign encouraging positive supportive sympathetic

WEAK

acclamatory affirmative amicable approbative approbatory assenting benevolent benignant complimentary enthusiastic in favor of inclined kind kindly laudatory okay praiseful predisposed reassuring recommendatory understanding welcoming well-disposed well-intentioned

Antonyms

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disadvantageous disagreeable hateful

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bad derogatory detrimental harmful hindering hurtful hurting injurious unfavorable unfriendly unhelpful unpromising

ADJECTIVE

good

Synonyms

STRONGEST

acceptable advantageous appropriate beneficial convenient decent desirable favorable fruitful healthy helpful profitable proper respectable satisfying suitable

STRONG

approving brave common fit fitting meet right

WEAK

all right ample apt auspicious becoming benefic benignant commendatory conformable congruous favoring healthful hygienic needed opportune propitious salubrious salutary seemly serviceable tolerable toward unobjectionable wholesome

Antonyms

STRONGEST

bad detrimental disadvantageous poor unhelpful unsuitable unsuited

WEAK

inadequate

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Normally primary candidates postpone commending their opponents until after they’ve either won or lost; Mr. Youngkin expresses his before the contest has started.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

Organizations like the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston have also sent out emails to their membership commending the commission.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025

Mahmoud offered her condolences to the victims while commending the swift response from local emergency services before adding she will "do whatever it takes" to keep the Jewish community safe.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2025

This leaves us torn between wanting to make jokes about her for not knowing this was in the bill or commending her for owning up to it and appropriately criticizing it.

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2025

Before commending himself to his destiny, however, the astronaut implored the engineers to execute one more check: a review of the orbital trajectory that had been generated by the IBM 7090 computer.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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