esteem
Usage
What are other ways to say esteem?
To esteem is to feel respect combined with a warm, kindly feeling. To appreciate is to exercise wise judgment, delicate perception, and keen insight in realizing the worth of something. To value is to attach importance to a thing because of its worth (material or otherwise). To prize is to value highly and cherish.
Example Sentences
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Most countries hold us in remarkably lower esteem today than they did a year ago.
From Slate • Apr. 22, 2026
Robert Coover’s “The Universal Baseball Association Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.” has grown in esteem since the novel was first published in 1968.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Mentoring played a massive part in my upbringing, and sports teachers and coaches were always held in great esteem.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
Not too long ago, “Bridgerton” was held in the highest esteem in the meeting place between TV fantasy and drab reality.
From Salon • Mar. 4, 2026
Graduate Dean George Birkhoff assured Ernest of Harvard’s high esteem for Oppenheimer “as a creative theorist” and confided that the university was willing to appoint him as an associate professor at $6,000.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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