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Considerable
//kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩// adj, noun
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Significant; worth considering.
"Soon I became a considerable figure in the music industry."
- 2 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."
Adjective
- 1 large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree wordnet
Noun
- 1 A thing to be considered, consideration. obsolete
"Statistes and Politicians, unto whom Ragione di Stato, is the first considerable, as though it were their businesse to deceive people, as a Maxime, do hold, that truth is to be concealed from them […]"
Etymology
Etymology 1
From consider + -able.
Etymology 2
From consider + -able.
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