considerable meaning
EN[kənˈsɪdəɹəbl]US
FR considérable
- AdjectiveCOMmore considerableSUPmost considerablePREcon-SUF-able
- Significant; worth considering.
- I've spent a considerable amount of time on this.
- Large in amount.
- Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
- Significant; worth considering.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- They are clearly wetlands of considerable importance, reflected in their gazettal as protected areas and Ramsar sites.
- A considerable observation of Plato's, that it is not only moral vitiosity, which inclines men to atheize, but also an affectation of seeming wiser than the generality of mankind; [...]
- I decided, with considerable trepidation, to let him drive my car without me.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The side effects of the treatment course, which involves surgery, craniospinal radiation therapy and intensive chemotherapy, are considerable.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
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