estimable
/ˈɛstɪməbəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.17 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Capable of being estimated; estimatable.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: esteemed, revered"
- "[Homer] allows their characters such estimable qualities as could consist, and in truth generally do, with tender frailties."
- "Mr. March told […]how devoted Brooke had been, and how he was altogether a most estimable and upright young man."
- "Francesca Bassington sat in the drawing-room of her house in Blue Street, W., regaling herself and her estimable brother Henry with China tea and small cress sandwiches."
- "For all this, the worn collodion image gracing his memoirs shows a man of estimable appearance in a sober woolen suit and brocade waistcoat."
- "A pound of man's flesh taken from a man Is not so estimable, profitable neither, As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats."
Etymology
From Middle English estimable, estymable, from Old French estimable, from Latin aestimābilis. Equivalent to esteem + -able and estimate + -able.
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Inflected Forms
more estimable (comparative)
most estimable (superlative)