estimable

From Middle English estimable, estymable, from Old French estimable, from Latin aestimābilis. Equivalent to esteem +‎ -able and estimate +‎ -able.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛstɪməbəl/

estimable (comparative more estimable, superlative most estimable)

1. Worthy of esteem; admirable.
   • 1715–1720, Homer, [Alexander] Pope, transl., “Book VI”, in The Iliad of Homer, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, footnote:

     [Homer] allows their characters such estimable qualities as could consist, and in truth generally do, with tender frailties.

   • 1868–1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, Little Women: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:

     Mr. March told […] how devoted Brooke had been, and how he was altogether a most estimable and upright young man.

2. (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, [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.

3. Capable of being estimated; estimatable.
   • 1928, Louis Kahlenberg, Norbert Barwasser, “On the time of Absorption and Excretion of Boric Acid in Man”, in Journal of Biological Chemistry, volume 79, number 2, page 406:

     After this time boric acid is always present in estimable amounts.

   • 1999, Jordi Galí, Mark Gertler, “Inflation dynamics: A structural econometric analysis”, in Journal of Monetary Economics, volume 44, page 198:

     In this section we review the recent theory that generates an estimable Phillips curve relation.

• “estimable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

From estimer +‎ -able.

estimable (plural estimables)

1. estimable, creditable
2. esteemed

• “estimable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /estiˈmable/ [es.t̪iˈma.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: es‧ti‧ma‧ble

estimable m or f (masculine and feminine plural estimables)

1. esteemed, admirable
2. estimable (capable of being estimated)

• “estimable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014