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発音

• IPA: /ˈɛstɪməbəl/

形容詞

estimable (comparative more estimable, superlative most estimable)

1. Worthy of esteem; admirable.

   Synonyms: creditable, reverend, venerable; see also Thesaurus:respectable

   Near-synonyms: esteemed, revered

   • 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book VI”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (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.

   Synonyms: estimable, prizable; see also Thesaurus: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.

派生語

Further reading

• “estimable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.