esteem

1. 1.

   regard highly; think much of

   “I respect his judgement”

   “We prize his creativity”

   Synonymsrespectvalueprizeprise

   Antonymsdisesteem

   Broadersee

   Narrowerthink the world ofreverenceadmire
2. 2.

   look on as or consider

   “she looked on this affair as a joke”

   “He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician”

   “He is reputed to be intelligent”

   Synonymsthink ofreputeknow asbe known asregard aslook uponlook ontake to be

   Broaderthink

Other forms of esteem

plural

esteems·

past tense

esteemed·

present participle

esteeming·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about esteem

What does esteem mean?

esteem means "the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded)". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in esteem?

esteem has 2 syllables: e-steem. The stress falls on "steem". In IPA it is /əˈstim/.

What is another word for esteem?

Close synonyms include regard, respect, admiration, respect, regard. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of esteem?

The recorded antonyms are disesteem, disesteem.

Is esteem a common word?

esteem is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with esteem?

2 words rhyme with esteem. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.