Estimable
['estɪməb(ə)l] or ['ɛstɪməbl]
Definition
(adj.) deserving of respect or high regard .
(adj.) deserving of esteem and respect; 'all respectable companies give guarantees'; 'ruined the family's good name' .
Edited by Leopold--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Capable of being estimated or valued; as, estimable damage.
(a.) Valuable; worth a great price.
(a.) Worth of esteem or respect; deserving our good opinion or regard.
(n.) A thing worthy of regard.
Edited by Edward
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Worthy, good, excellent, meritorious.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Amiable, delectable, worthy, good, meritorious, deserving, lovable,praiseworthy
ANT:Unamiable, {[iiidelec]?}, iiidelec_table, unworthy, bad
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Examples
- This was very proper; the sigh which accompanied it was really estimable; but it should have lasted longer. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I will take any trouble to please you, my estimable young friend! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He is very amiable--very excellent--truly estimable; but _not my master_--not in one point. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This has since been placed there by the munificence of an estimable citizen of Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The Sympsons are most estimable people, but not the folks to comprehend him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- HERON FOSTER, editor of a Pittsburgh journal, and a most estimable gentleman. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- To one of them I owe my knowledge and my proofs--I repeat it, estimable lady--proofs--of the ravishing little family history I go to commence. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It does not follow that a deep, intricate character is more or less estimable than such a one as yours. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- So estimable a young man! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mendicancy is not estimable. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I propose,' returned that estimable man, 'to insult him openly. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He was a most estimable man, of exemplary habits, and by no means the author of his own disease. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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