INESTIMABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inestimable mean? 

• INESTIMABLE (adjective)
  The adjective INESTIMABLE has 1 sense:

1. beyond calculation or measure

  Familiarity information: INESTIMABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INESTIMABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Beyond calculation or measure

Synonyms:

immeasurable; incomputable; inestimable

Context example:

immeasurable wealth

Similar:

incalculable (not able to be computed or enumerated)

 Context examples 

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.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I give it her, and say: I ask an inestimable price for it, Miss Larkins.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Madam, you may: she shall be placed in that nursery of chosen plants, and I trust she will show herself grateful for the inestimable privilege of her election.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You need no chart of directions now, since you will have the inestimable advantage of my own guidance.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But supposing all these conjectures to be false, you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be effected by an undertaking such as mine.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Holmes, however, like all great artists, lived for his art’s sake, and, save in the case of the Duke of Holdernesse, I have seldom known him claim any large reward for his inestimable services.

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

He thoroughly knows his own mind, and acts up to his resolutions: an inestimable quality.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

What could I do but tell Miss Mills, with grateful looks and fervent words, how much I appreciated her good offices, and what an inestimable value I set upon her friendship!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was a great augmentation of my uneasiness to be bereaved, at this eventful crisis, of the inestimable services of Miss Mills.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)