considerable
IPA: kʌnsˈɪdɝʌbʌɫ
noun
- (obsolete) A thing to be considered, consideration.
adjective
- Significant; worth considering.
- Large in amount.
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Examples of "considerable" in Sentences
- Manliness is a topic of considerable relevance.
- It will bring considerable loss to the exchequer.
- There is considerable movement of large ungulate species across this boundary.
- Please be assured that I know about the 'minority perspective' in considerable detail.
- As far as avalanche is concerned, there is still what they call considerable avalanche danger.
- However, the Paris-based think tank added the U.S. is expected to gain considerable momentum in 2012.
- This, then, was the place where Piper had toiled in what he referred to as considerable inconvenience.
- Getting there took 10 minutes, and I was now in considerable pain from the new shoes; they seemed to be cutting into my ankles.
- Here was a chance to get back at him for his stinging comments and to prove him wrong about his ability to resist what he called her considerable charms.
- In colonial Maryland, whites complained to judicial authorities that slaves were “drunke on the Lords Day beating their Negro drums by which they call considerable Number of Negroes together in some Certaine places.”
- In your next you must say how much Lead you want, we do not Know what you call a considerable quantity, it may be 100 lbs or a Ton it is difficult to get 5 lbs to the square-foot would not 4 lbs answer? we shall have to procure it in New York, there is very little here --
- So those of you thinking about going hiking maybe this weekend into the Colorado Rockies, down to the San Juan, across the Wasatch and Siuwincas (ph) and up into parts of Idaho and Montana, we have what we call a considerable threat of avalanche danger in the back country areas.
- Although it recognized (and discussed in considerable detail) all of the relevant US precedents (including the Cablevision and Sony cases), and recognized them as persuasive authority, it nonetheless held against RecordTV and enjoined their rollout of the internet-based RS-DVR system.