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laudatory

adjective/ˈlɔːdətəri/

C1CEFR level
70/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

Describing a term that merely commends goods and is therefore usually refused as lacking distinctiveness.

Purely laudatory words such as 'Best' or 'Premium' rarely function as trade marks on their own.

Topic: Intellectual property in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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