estimable
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Middle French estimable. Equivalent to esteem + -able and estimate + -able.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
estimable (comparative more estimable, superlative most estimable)
- Worthy of esteem; admirable.
- 1715–1720, Homer; [Alexander] Pope, transl., “Book VI”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], OCLC 670734254, footnote:
- [Homer] allows their characters such estimable qualities as could consist, and in truth generally do, with tender frailties.
- 1868, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, Little Women: Or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, OCLC 30743985:
- Mr. March told […] how devoted Brooke had been, and how he was altogether a most estimable and upright young man.
- (archaic) Valuable.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:
- A pound of man's flesh taken from a man
Is not so estimable, profitable neither,
As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats.
- Capable of being estimated; estimatable.
- 1928, Louis Kahlenberg and Norbert Barwasser, "On the time of Absorption and Excretion of Boric Acid in Man," Journal of Biological Chemistry, volume 79, iss. 2, page 406:
- After this time boric acid is always present in estimable amounts.
- 1928, Louis Kahlenberg and Norbert Barwasser, "On the time of Absorption and Excretion of Boric Acid in Man," Journal of Biological Chemistry, volume 79, iss. 2, page 406:
Further readingEdit
- estimable at OneLook Dictionary Search
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
estimable (plural estimables)
Further readingEdit
- “estimable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
SpanishEdit
AdjectiveEdit
estimable (plural estimables)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “estimable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014