Word Meanings - ESTIMATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of estimating. Shak. 2. An opinion or judgment of the worth, extent, or quantity of anything, formed without using precise data; valuation; as, estimations of distance, magnitude, amount, or moral qualities. If he be poorer that thy

Additional info about word: ESTIMATION

1. The act of estimating. Shak. 2. An opinion or judgment of the worth, extent, or quantity of anything, formed without using precise data; valuation; as, estimations of distance, magnitude, amount, or moral qualities. If he be poorer that thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest, and the priest shall value him. Lev. xxvii. 8. 3. Favorable opinion; esteem; regard; honor. I shall have estimation among multitude, and honor with the elders. Wisdom viii. 10. 4. Supposition; conjecture. I speak not this in estimation, As what I think might be, but what I know. Shak. Syn. -- Estimate; calculation; computation; appraisement; esteem; honor; regard. See Estimate, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ESTIMATION)

• Calculation
• Estimation
• consideration
• balance
• apportionment
• investigation
• reckoning
• computation
• anticipation
• forethought
• regard
• circumspection
• watchfulness
• vigilance
• caution
• care
• Character
• Symbol
• letter
• nature
• type
• disposition
• genius
• temperament
• cast
• estimation
• repute
• office
• reputation
• part
• capacity
• class
• order
• sort
• stamp
• kind
• quality
• species
• sign
• tone
• mark
• figure
• record
• Judgment
• Decision
• determination
• adjudication
• sagacity
• penetration
• judiciousness
• sense
• intellect
• belief
• opinion
• verdict
• sentence
• discernment
• discrimination
• intelligence
• prudence
• award
• condemnation
• Opinion
• Conviction
• view
• judgment
• notion
• idea
• impression
• theory

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ESTIMATION)

• Obliviate
• silentiate
• suppress
• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge

Related words: (words related to ESTIMATION)

• SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
  Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• JUDGMENT
  The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• INVESTIGATION
  The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• RECKON
  reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• RECKONER
  One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.
• CLASSIS
  An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• SYMBOLISM
  The science of creeds; symbolics. (more info) 1. The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms. 2. A system
• COMPUTATION
  1. The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon. 2. The result of computation; the amount computed. Syn. -- Reckoning; calculation; estimate;
• ENSTAMP
  To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.
• UNPRUDENCE
  Imprudence.
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• MISCOMPUTATION
  Erroneous computation; false reckoning.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• VORTEX THEORY
  The theory, advanced by Thomson on the basis of investigation by Helmholtz, that the atoms are vortically moving ring-shaped masses (or masses of other forms having a similar internal motion) of a homogeneous, incompressible, frictionless fluid.