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Estimable vs Appreciable - What's the difference?

estimable | appreciable |

As adjectives the difference between estimable and appreciable

is that estimable is worthy of esteem; admirable while appreciable is substantial.

estimable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Worthy of esteem; admirable.
  • * 1868 , , Little Women , ch. 22,
    • Mr. March told . . . how devoted Brooke had been, and how he was altogether a most estimable and upright young man.
  • (archaic) Valuable.
  • * 1596 , , The Merchant of Venice , act 1, scene 3:
    • A pound of man's flesh taken from a man
    Is not so estimable , profitable neither,
    As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats.
  • Capable of being estimated.
  • * 1928 , Louis Kahlenberg and Norbert Barwasser, "On the time of Absorption and Excretion of Boric Acid in Man," Journal of Biological Chemistry , volume 79, iss. 2, page 406:
    • After this time boric acid is always present in estimable amounts.

    References

    * * * * " estimable" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002) * " estimable" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) ----

    appreciable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; considerable.
  • * 1865 , , Our Mutual Friend , ch. 15:
    • A grain of musk will scent a drawer for many years, and still lose nothing appreciable of its original weight.
  • * 1915 , , Something New , ch. 1:
    • For an appreciable time he did not think of rising from his seat.
  • * 2002 , John J. Mearsheimer, "Realism, the Real World, and the Academy," in Realism and Institutionalism in International Studies (M. Brecher and F. P. Harvey, eds.), ISBN 9780472088591, p. 27:
    • If NEAsia were a zone of peace, those American forces would be unnecessary and they could be sent home and demobilized, saving the U.S. taxpayer an appreciable sum of money.

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