ANTEPENULTIMATE | • antepenultimate adj. Two before the last, i.e., the one immediately before the penultimate, in a series. • antepenultimate n. Two before the last in a series. e.g. (..., antepenultimate, penultimate, ultimate) • antepenultimate n. The syllable that comes two before the last in a word. |
DELEGITIMATE | • delegitimate v. (Transitive) To cause (something) not to be legitimate; to make illegitimate, to illegitimize. |
ESTIMATE | • estimate n. A rough calculation or assessment of the value, size, or cost of something. • estimate n. (Construction and business) A document (or verbal notification) specifying how much a job is likely to cost. • estimate n. An upper limitation on some positive quantity. |
GUESSTIMATE | • guesstimate n. (Informal) An estimate that is hardly any better than a guess, often because it is based on insufficient… • guesstimate v. (Intransitive) To make a guesstimate. • guesstimate v. (Transitive) To make a guesstimate of a specific quantity. |
GUESTIMATE | • guestimate n. Alternative spelling of guesstimate. • guestimate v. Alternative spelling of guesstimate. • GUESTIMATE v. to make an intuitive estimate, also GUESSTIMATE. |
ILLEGITIMATE | • illegitimate adj. Not conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards. • illegitimate adj. Not in accordance with the law. • illegitimate adj. Not sanctioned by marriage. |
INTIMATE | • intimate adj. Closely acquainted; familiar. • intimate adj. Of or involved in a sexual relationship. • intimate adj. Personal; private. |
LEGITIMATE | • legitimate adj. In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements. • legitimate adj. Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid. • legitimate adj. Authentic, real, genuine. |
MISESTIMATE | • misestimate v. To estimate erroneously. • misestimate n. An erroneous estimate. • MISESTIMATE v. to estimate wrongly. |
OPTIMATE | • optimate n. (Historical) A member of the patrician ruling class in republican Ancient Rome; an aristocrat, a noble. • OPTIMATE n. a member of the aristocracy. |
OVERESTIMATE | • overestimate v. To judge or calculate too highly. • overestimate n. An estimate that is too high. • over-estimate v. Alternative spelling of overestimate. |
PENULTIMATE | • penultimate adj. (UK, in US usually formal, literary or scholarly) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding… • penultimate adj. (Linguistics) Of or pertaining to a penult. • penultimate adj. (Mathematics, rare) Relating to or denoting an element of a related collection of curves that is arbitrarily… |
REESTIMATE | • reestimate v. (Transitive) To estimate again. • REESTIMATE v. to estimate again. |
ULTIMATE | • ultimate adj. Final; last in a series. • ultimate adj. (Of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance. • ultimate adj. Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme. |
UNDERESTIMATE | • underestimate v. (Transitive) To perceive (someone or something) as having a lower value, quantity, worth, etc., than… • underestimate n. An estimate that is too low. • UNDERESTIMATE v. to estimate as being less than the actual size, quantity, or number. |