considerable
See also: considérable
English
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
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Adjective
considerable (comparative more considerable, superlative most considerable)
- Significant; worth considering.
- I've spent a considerable amount of time on this.
- Large in amount.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- 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.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess[1]:
- When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.
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Translations
worth considering
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large in amount
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Noun
considerable (plural considerables)
- (obsolete) A thing to be considered, consideration.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, Book I, Chapter 3, p. 9,[2]
- 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 […]
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, Book I, Chapter 3, p. 9,[2]
Catalan
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
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Adjective
considerable m or f (masculine and feminine plural considerables)
- considerable (large, substantial)
- El mes de febrer de 1888, doncs, Eduard Toda ja ha reunit un fons bibliogràfic de valor considerable.
Spanish
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Adjective
considerable m or f (masculine and feminine plural considerables)
- considerable (significant)
- Synonym: notable
- considerable (large in amount)
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