ESTIMABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does estimable mean? 

• ESTIMABLE (adjective)
  The adjective ESTIMABLE has 3 senses:

1. deserving of respect or high regard

2. deserving of esteem and respect

3. may be computed or estimated

  Familiarity information: ESTIMABLE used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESTIMABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deserving of respect or high regard

Similar:

admirable (deserving of the highest esteem or admiration)

Also:

worthy (having worth or merit or value; being honorable or admirable)

Antonym:

contemptible (deserving of contempt or scorn)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Deserving of esteem and respect

Synonyms:

estimable; good; honorable; respectable

Context example:

ruined the family's good name

Similar:

reputable (having a good reputation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

May be computed or estimated

Synonyms:

computable; estimable

Context example:

estimable assets

Similar:

calculable (able to be calculated or estimated)

 Context examples 

It does not follow that a deep, intricate character is more or less estimable than such a one as yours.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

While really very estimable, Mr. Van Weyden is sometimes—how shall I say?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This was very proper; the sigh which accompanied it was really estimable; but it should have lasted longer.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I found estimable characters amongst them—characters desirous of information and disposed for improvement—with whom I passed many a pleasant evening hour in their own homes.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Jo saw and understood the look, and she stalked grimly away to get wine and beef tea, muttering to herself as she slammed the door, "I hate estimable young men with brown eyes!"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

So estimable a young man!

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His manners were an immediate recommendation; and on conversing with him she found the solid so fully supporting the superficial, that she was at first, as she told Anne, almost ready to exclaim, Can this be Mr Elliot? and could not seriously picture to herself a more agreeable or estimable man.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

In this world the penalty is less equal than could be wished; but without presuming to look forward to a juster appointment hereafter, we may fairly consider a man of sense, like Henry Crawford, to be providing for himself no small portion of vexation and regret: vexation that must rise sometimes to self-reproach, and regret to wretchedness, in having so requited hospitality, so injured family peace, so forfeited his best, most estimable, and endeared acquaintance, and so lost the woman whom he had rationally as well as passionately loved.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

His pleasure in music, though it amounted not to that ecstatic delight which alone could sympathize with her own, was estimable when contrasted against the horrible insensibility of the others; and she was reasonable enough to allow that a man of five and thirty might well have outlived all acuteness of feeling and every exquisite power of enjoyment.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Mr. March told how he had longed to surprise them, and how, when the fine weather came, he had been allowed by his doctor to take advantage of it, how devoted Brooke had been, and how he was altogether a most estimable and upright young man.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)