estimate
verb (used with object)
to form an approximate judgment or opinion regarding the worth, amount, size, weight, etc., of; calculate approximately.
self-estimate
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a word derived from
estimate.
Example Sentences
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His self-estimate showed itself correct during the War, when he roared against the Hun as loudly as any Horatio Bottomley, prophesied speedy victory often, always incorrectly.
From Time Magazine Archive
His self-estimate may be sophisticated and in error or primitive and correct.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 84 years of almost constant exercise, Nancy Aster's acerbic tongue and quixotic heart led many to agree with her self-estimate.
From Time Magazine Archive
In another misguided extra-literary self-estimate, Snow has encouraged comparisons with Proust.
From Time Magazine Archive
And by longer experience, and that humbler self-estimate which longer experience brings, the trial is ever becoming greater.
From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
