Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Large in amount, extent, or degree: a writer of considerable influence.
- adj. Worthy of consideration; significant: The economy was a considerable issue in the campaign.
- n. Informal A considerable amount, extent, or degree.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- That may be considered; that is to be observed, remarked, or attended to.
- Worthy of consideration; worthy of regard or attention.
- Of distinction; deserving of notice; important.
- Of somewhat large amount or extent; of not a little importance from its effects or results; decidedly more than the average: as, a man of considerable influence; a considerable estate.
- n. A thing of importance or interest.
- n. Much; not a little: as, he has done considerable for the community; I found considerable to detain me.
Wiktionary
- adj. Significant; worth considering.
- adj. Large in amount.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Worthy of consideration; requiring to be observed, borne in mind, or attended to.
- adj. Of some distinction; noteworthy; influential; respectable; -- said of persons.
- adj. Of importance or value.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree
Examples
“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.””
“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.”
“As far as avalanche is concerned, there is still what they call considerable avalanche danger.”
“This, then, was the place where Piper had toiled in what he referred to as considerable inconvenience.”
“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 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 --”
Letters to and from Jefferson, 1824 [a machine-readable transcription]
“However, the Paris-based think tank added the U.S. is expected to gain considerable momentum in 2012.”
“Please be assured that I know about the 'minority perspective' in considerable detail.”
“Getting there took 10 minutes, and I was now in considerable pain from the new shoes; they seemed to be cutting into my ankles.”
“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.”
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