Considerable Meaning
/kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjSignificant; worth considering.
adjLarge in amount.
Sentence Examples
To Brian's surprise, his debt amounted to a considerable sum.
The ship was built at considerable expense.
The project wasted a considerable amount of time and money.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
After the storm, the town suffered a ____ amount of damage to homes.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The wealthy donor made a very ____ financial contribution to help quickly build the new hospital.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English consider Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English considerable From consider + -able.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
"With the cutting out of the previous recovery times for electrification work, curtailment of station times and acceleration, considerable reductions have been made in the overall schedules."
— 1961 January, “The North-East London electrification of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 18:
"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."
— 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
"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, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 3, p. 9:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
After the storm, the town suffered a ____ amount of damage to homes.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The wealthy donor made a very ____ financial contribution to help quickly build the new hospital.