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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩/
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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Hyphenation: con‧sid‧er‧able

considerable (comparative more considerable, superlative most considerable)

1. Significant; worth considering.

   I've spent a considerable amount of time on this.

2. 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.

• ignorable
• negligible

• consider
• considerably

considerable (plural considerables)

1. (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 […]

From considerar +‎ -able.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kun.si.ðəˈɾab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kon.si.ðəˈɾab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kon.si.ðeˈɾa.ble]
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -aβle

considerable m or f (masculine and feminine plural considerables)

1. considerable (large, substantial)

   El mes de febrer de 1888, doncs, Eduard Toda ja ha reunit un fons bibliogràfic de valor considerable.

• considerablement

• “considerable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “considerable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “considerable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “considerable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From considerar +‎ -able.

• IPA^(key): /konsideˈɾable/ [kõn.si.ð̞eˈɾa.β̞le]

considerable m or f (masculine and feminine plural considerables)

1. considerable (significant)

   Synonym: notable

2. considerable (large in amount)

• considerablemente

• “considerable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28