Inestimable
[ɪn'estɪməb(ə)l] or [ɪn'ɛstɪməbl]
Definition
(a.) Incapable of being estimated or computed; especially, too valuable or excellent to be measured or fully appreciated; above all price; as, inestimable rights or privileges.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Invaluable, priceless, that cannot be estimated, above all price.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Priceless, precious, invaluable,[See ESTIMABLY]
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Definition
adj. not able to be estimated or valued: priceless.—adv. Ines′timably.
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Examples
- Did the late Mrs. Betteredge possess those inestimable advantages? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Inestimable Dog. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Supposing, for instance, that a man wanted to be always marching, he would find your mother an inestimable companion. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mrs. Bardell's opinions of the opposite sex, gentlemen, were derived from a long contemplation of the inestimable qualities of her lost husband. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- My dear (turning abruptly), you acknowledge an inestimable value in principle? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I give it her, and say: 'I ask an inestimable price for it, Miss Larkins. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Immediately new processes of inestimable value revealed themselves; new methods were suggested. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The value of a man like Henry, on such an occasion, is what you can have no conception of; so you must take it upon my word to be inestimable. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- You have done Franklin Blake an inestimable service. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The strategic importance of the canal is inestimable from a monetary standpoint. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- His services would no doubt have been of inestimable value had his health permitted his presence. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Your society I should esteem a very dear privilege--an inestimable privilege, a comfort, a blessing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It was a great augmentation of my uneasiness to be bereaved, at this eventful crisis, of the inestimable services of Miss Mills. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In this trying emergency an idea occurred to me--an inestimable idea which, so to speak, killed two intrusive birds with one stone. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He thoroughly knows his own mind, and acts up to his resolutions: an inestimable quality. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I was also deprived, at the time, of the inestimable advantage of hearing the events related by the fervid eloquence of Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- A diamond necklace, with pendants of inestimable value, were by this means also made more conspicuous. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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