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Noteworthy vs Commendable - What's the difference?

noteworthy | commendable |

As adjectives the difference between noteworthy and commendable

is that noteworthy is deserving attention; notable; worthy of notice while commendable is worthy of commendation; deserving praise; admirable, creditable or meritorious.

As a noun noteworthy

is a noteworthy person.

noteworthy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Deserving attention; notable; worthy of notice.
  • Zukertort represent the other most noteworthy tournaments.
  • * 2014 , Daniel Taylor, England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard'' (in ''The Guardian , 18 November 2014)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/18/scotland-england-international-friendly-match-report]
  • Yet Hodgson’s men played with wonderful control. Their young full-backs, Luke Shaw and Nathaniel Clyne, epitomised their composure and Fraser Forster had to make only one noteworthy save before Andy Robertson’s goal, seven minutes from the end of time, temporarily threatened a winning position.

    Noun

    (noteworthies)
  • A noteworthy person.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=2009-08-19, author=Phoebe Eaton, title=Charles Finch: The Cannes-Do Guy, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=One of the French Riviera’s most reliable characters is Charles Finch, a month-of-May migrant worker who jets in for the Cannes Film Festival, bunking up at the stately Hôtel du Cap with the show folk and other noteworthies who come primed to toast their outrageous fortune here with $40 Bellinis. }}

    commendable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Worthy of commendation; deserving praise; admirable, creditable or meritorious.
  • * circa 1600 , The Merchant of Venice ,Act I, scene I:
  • LThanks,i' faith; for silence is only commendable /In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible.

    See also

    * commandable