1. appreciable - Adjective
2. appreciable - Adjective Satellite
Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; as, an appreciable quantity.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI 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