esteemable
English
Etymology
esteem + -able
Adjective
esteemable (comparative more esteemable, superlative most esteemable)
- Worthy of esteem; estimable.
- Alexander Pope
- [Homer] allows their characters such esteemable qualities as could consist, and in truth generally do, with tender frailties.
- Alexander Pope
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for esteemable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)