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Meritorious vs Censurable - What's the difference?

meritorious | censurable |

As adjectives the difference between meritorious and censurable

is that meritorious is deserving of merit or commendation; deserving reward while censurable is deserving of censure; blameworthy.

meritorious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • deserving of merit or commendation; deserving reward
    • The policeman received the Award of Meritorious Service from his grateful department.

    Synonyms

    * (l) * (l)

    Antonyms

    * immeritorious

    Derived terms

    * meritoriously * meritoriousness

    References

    censurable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Deserving of censure; blameworthy.
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year= 1648 , year_published= , author= , by= , title= Miscellanea Spiritualia , url= http://ia700305.us.archive.org/3/items/miscellaneaspiri00mont/miscellaneaspiri00mont_bw.pdf , original= , chapter= Of Scurrility , section = 2 , isbn= , edition= , publisher= W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell , location= London , editor= , volume= , page= 144 , passage= ... and well considered, me thinks this is one of the most censurable parts of this licentiousnesse, in regard it laboureth to taint the whole body of conversation, as it corrupteth the nature of words, which are the Publique Faith , whereupon all innocent discourse must needs trust it selfe, so that this perversion seemeth a publick impediment to the commerce of all vertuous communication ... }}