Adjective

(en-adj)

Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.

* 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 278:

He is massively corrupt. It is wonderful how the man's popularity survives.

Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.

They served a wonderful six-course meal.

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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.