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[ US /ˈɛstəməbəɫ/ ]
[ UK /ˈɛstɪməbə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. deserving of respect or high regard
  2. may be computed or estimated
    computable odds
    a calculable risk
    estimable assets
    a calculable risk
  3. deserving of esteem and respect
    all respectable companies give guarantees
    ruined the family's good name

How To Use estimable In A Sentence

  • Betwixt the gracylament of the foote and the cuppe, it was knitte together with a handle of inestimable workemanship, and in lyke manner the foote and the bowle were of an excellent anaglyphie of foliature, monsters and byformed Scyllules, so exquisitely expressed, as could be imbossed, chased, or ingrauen by proportionate circulation. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
  • The museum has a Saudi sculpture of a falcon on a perch, of inestimable value and stunning vulgarity, made from gold, quartz, rubies, emeralds, sapphires and 1,210 diamonds.
  • The cinematographer was the estimable Paul Sarossy. 'Like Crazy': From Cupid's Blunders, Wonders
  • So the estimable seed of Kumi, eight centuries before, had entered into the aliis of Lakanaii, and been passed down by them in the undeviating line to reposit in SHIN-BONES
  • And while Roslin is not itself a commercial organisation, the benefit in terms of royalties, prestige and future investment is inestimable.
  • They set out an estimable tuna salad perked up with toasted pine nuts.
  • The crux of their argument is that mothering - as opposed to fathering, or parenting, or care giving - is something unique, and of inestimable value.
  • 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: [those days] under the microscope
  • In the winter time they had their taffety gowns of all colours, as above-named, and those lined with the rich furrings of hind-wolves, or speckled lynxes, black-spotted weasels, martlet skins of Calabria, sables, and other costly furs of an inestimable value. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • Our estimable reader Stanley Black sent me these comments and asked for my response.
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