Well-behaved vs Estimable - What's the difference?
well-behaved | estimable | Related terms |
(of a person or animal) Having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour;
:The boy is well behaved and is seldom naughty.
(mathematics) Having intuitive, easy to handle properties. Especially:
(mathematics) (of a function ) Having a finite derivative (of all orders) at all points, and having no discontinuities
Worthy of esteem; admirable.
* 1868 , , Little Women , ch. 22,
(archaic) Valuable.
* 1596 , , The Merchant of Venice , act 1, scene 3:
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:
Well-behaved is a related term of estimable.
As adjectives the difference between well-behaved and estimable
is that well-behaved is (of a person or animal) having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour; while estimable is worthy of esteem; admirable.well-behaved
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(wikipedia well-behaved)Adjective
Synonyms
* well-mannered * seemlyAntonyms
* ill behaved * (mathematics) pathologicalestimable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Mr. March told . . . how devoted Brooke had been, and how he was altogether a most estimable and upright young man.
- A pound of man's flesh taken from a man
- Is not so estimable , profitable neither,
- As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats.
- 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) ----
