Antonyms for estimable

Grammar : Adj

Spell : es-tuh-muh-buhl

Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛs tə mə bəl

Definition of estimable

Origin : mid-15c., from Old French estimable and directly from Latin aestimabilis "valuable, estimable," from aestimare (see esteem (v.)).

adj honorable, worthy

Example sentences :

The very best sort; a most estimable fellow,—one of a thousand.
Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden

Besides, the majority of the clergy were most estimable men.
Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola

He was a man of my own class; a gentleman of pleasant ways, amiable, estimable, and able.
Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini

Have you not, father, said in the past that he was an estimable young man?
Extract from : « Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times » by Charles Carleton Coffin

She was a most kind, estimable woman, and he admired her for her noble character.
Extract from : « Jolly Sally Pendleton » by Laura Jean Libbey

How dared she feel the touch of so estimable a man to be so hateful?
Extract from : « Bulldog And Butterfly » by David Christie Murray

Their culture is different from anything else, and yet it is most estimable and refined.
Extract from : « From Pole to Pole » by Sven Anders Hedin

Someone else must attend to Miss Verona's estimable aunt—positively!
Extract from : « Torchy, Private Sec. » by Sewell Ford

And what do the wives of our estimable M.P.'s think of all this?
Extract from : « The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 » by Various

Daggett is anything but dull and inoffensive, and if he can play that estimable rôle——!
Extract from : « Free Air » by Sinclair Lewis

Synonyms for estimable

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