appreciable

Speech parts

1. appreciable - Adjective

2. appreciable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; as, an appreciable quantity.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

important large significant good great material clear goodly serious marked distinct visible considerable notable substantial
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Antonyms

bush mystic delphic threepenny small little
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Related terms

appreciation appreciatable

Phrases with the word

appreciable distance appreciable amount appreciable amount of more appreciable appreciable differences nonstandard appreciable

Examples

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe

In short, unbalanced bipolar systems are so unstable that they cannot last for any appreciable period of time. John Mearsheimer

I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below. H. P. Lovecraft

He was an admirer of the bullfight, and had once drawn my attention to the fact that only cricket and bullfighting had inspired any appreciable literature. Dal Stivens

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return. Sidney Poitier

I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. H. P. Lovecraft

Close letter words and terms

apprecation apprecatory appreciability appreciable amount appreciable amount of appreciable differences