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esteem
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of ESTEEM
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to think very highly or favorably of <although the works of the Impressionist painters are esteemed today, they met with scorn when they were introduced>
Related Words acclaim, accredit, applaud, approve, commend, compliment, credit, praise; delight (in), drink (in), enjoy, relish, revel (in), savor (also savour); dig, fancy, favor, groove (on), like, love; adore, adulate, canonize, deify, dote (on), hallow, idolize, revere, reverence, venerate, worship; cherish, love, prize, treasure, value
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to have as an opinion <I should have esteemed it most unlikely that their marriage had any chance of success>
Synonyms allow [chiefly Southern & Midland], conceive, consider, deem, esteem, feel, figure, guess, hold, imagine, judge, reckon [chiefly dialect], suppose, think
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