Advisable
[əd'vaɪzəb(ə)l] or [əd'vaɪzəbl]
Definition
(adj.) worthy of being recommended or suggested; prudent or wise; 'such action is neither necessary nor advisable'; 'extreme caution is advisable'; 'it is advisable to telephone first' .
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Definition
(a.) Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent.
(a.) Ready to receive advice.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Expedient, proper, fit, prudent, desirable, fit to be advised.
Editor: Vanessa
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Politic, judicious, expedient, desirable, wise, prudent, beneficial, profitable
ANT:inadvisable, impolitic, Injudicious, inexpedient, undesirable, unprofitable
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Examples
- I think it would be advisable in making the change to leave Hancock where he is until Warren passes him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It may be advisable to superadd to the above, the statement that Mrs. Micawber is not in confidential possession of my intentions. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- On the latter date a full-page article appeared in the New York Herald which so intensified the excited feeling that Mr. Edison deemed it advisable to make a public exhibition. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Equality of position and fortune is often advisable in such cases; and there are twenty years of difference in your ages. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Secrecy may be advisable; but still I cannot help wondering at its being practiced by him. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Still in that attitude he said, with a hollow voice, Good night, Mr. Pip, when I deemed it advisable to go to bed and leave him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I think it advisable, therefore, that you prepare as much of a cavalry force as you can spare, and hold it in readiness to go south. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If I wanted to see him, it would be advisable to lose no time in paying my contemplated visit. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- If the skin be of the nature known as greasy, a preliminary wash with tepid water containing a few drops of stronger water of ammonia is advisable. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- After a short discussion with her husband, she had considered it advisable to ascertain whether anything was wrong. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Warren and Wright were ordered to hold themselves in readiness to join in the assault if circumstances made it advisable. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And I think you will agree with me, in considering the removal from that corps as highly advisable, both on his account and my niece's. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Do not say _I_ advise his return, but that his return is advisable. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- These measures, advisable to be taken in any case, Mr. Lorry took in the hope of his coming to himself. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- However, here were three of the guests, at any rate, whom it was clearly advisable for me to see before I left town. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I think it advisable therefore to change our base of supplies from Port Royal to the White House. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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