Estimated vs Inestimable - What's the difference?
estimated | inestimable |
(estimate)
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 Not able to be estimated; not able to be calculated, computed or comprehended, as because of great scale, degree or magnitude.
As a verb estimated
is (estimate).As an adjective inestimable is
not able to be estimated; not able to be calculated, computed or comprehended, as because of great scale, degree or magnitude.estimated
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Verb
(head)citation, passage=Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.}}
Synonyms
* (abbreviation)Anagrams
*inestimable
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(-)- The spacecraft explored the solar system and continued into the inestimable space beyond.
References
* “inestimable, a. ''(''n. )]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989 ----