Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Possible to estimate.
- adjective Deserving of esteem; admirable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being estimated or valued: as, estimable damage.
- Valuable; worth a price.
- Worthy of esteem or respect; deserving of good opinion or regard.
- noun That which is valuable or highly esteemed; one who or that which is worthy of regard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A thing worthy of regard.
- adjective Capable of being estimated or valued.
- adjective rare Valuable; worth a great price.
- adjective Worth of esteem or respect; deserving our good opinion or regard.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Worthy of
esteem ;admirable . - adjective archaic
Valuable . - adjective Capable of being
estimated .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective deserving of esteem and respect
- adjective may be computed or estimated
- adjective deserving of respect or high regard
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"When a married man becomes what you call estimable," said Donna
Don Orsino 1881
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The 'estimable' critic Ben Davis wows the pseudo Marxists/Socialists, but the guy should actually try and be a real Socialist for one month and then get back to us.
Comrade Davis (repost) EAGEAGEAG 2010
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I am naturally, ...err , flattered that you refer to me as 'estimable', but am surprised that the only answer to the perfectly justified observation I made that it is 'bonkers' to assert that there have been 'deliberate moves' to break up the normal family as an aside, whatever that is is to make this comment:
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This great small research university is mentioned in passing by Gregg Easterbrook as among the "estimable" colleges (though it actually belongs in the "slightly less good than the elites" category).
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This great small research university is mentioned in passing by Gregg Easterbrook as among the "estimable" colleges (though it actually belongs in the "slightly less good than the elites" category).
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"Aunt Julia says he is really a very estimable man -- Cordelia, if I was a man I just wouldn't be an 'estimable' one."
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But the action was nonetheless 'estimable' and the navy commandos intercept the Mavi Marmara on its way to break the
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But the action was nonetheless 'estimable' and the navy commandos intercept the Mavi Marmara on its way to break the
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But the action was nonetheless 'estimable' and the navy commandos intercept the Mavi Marmara on its way to break the
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But the action was nonetheless 'estimable' and the navy commandos intercept the Mavi Marmara on its way to break the
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