adj
Meaning 1
Significant; worth considering.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Soon I became a considerable figure in the music industry.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
considerable
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Sound
Pronunciation
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adj
Meaning 2
Large in amount.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: good-sized
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A thing to be considered, consideration.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a considerable quantity
- the economy was a considerable issue in the campaign
- went to considerable trouble for us
- spent a considerable amount of time on the problem
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: inconsiderable
History
Etymology
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.
Across languages
Translations
55 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: зна́чны (znáčny) — worth considering
- Bulgarian: важен (važen) — worth considering
- Bulgarian: значителен (značitelen) — worth considering
- Catalan: apreciable — worth considering
- Catalan: considerable — worth considering
- Chinese Mandarin: 可觀 /可观 (kěguān) — worth considering
- Czech: značný — worth considering
- Dutch: geruim — worth considering
- Dutch: aanzienlijk — worth considering
- Dutch: aanmerkelijk — worth considering
- Dutch: beduidend — worth considering
- Finnish: varteenotettava — worth considering
- Galician: considerábel — worth considering
- German: erheblich — worth considering
- German: beträchtlich — worth considering
- German: beachtlich — worth considering
- Hungarian: tetemes — worth considering
- Japanese: 大切 (taisetsu) — worth considering
- Japanese: 重要 (jūyō) — worth considering
- Latin: aliquantus — worth considering
- Latvian: redzams — worth considering
- Latvian: ievērojams — worth considering
- Norwegian Bokmål: betydelig — worth considering
- Norwegian Nynorsk: betydeleg — worth considering
- Polish: znaczny — worth considering
- Polish: znaczący — worth considering
- Polish: spory — worth considering
- Portuguese: considerável — worth considering
- Russian: значи́тельный (značítelʹnyj) — worth considering
- Spanish: considerable — worth considering
- Swedish: betydlig — worth considering
- Swedish: betydande — worth considering
- Swedish: ansenlig — worth considering
- Swedish: beaktansvärd — worth considering
- Swedish: avsevärd — worth considering
- Turkish: hatırı sayılır — worth considering
- Bulgarian: голям (goljam) — large in amount
- Catalan: considerable — large in amount
- Dutch: aanzienlijk — large in amount
- Finnish: huomattava — large in amount
- Finnish: melkoinen — large in amount
- French: considérable — large in amount
- Italian: considerabile — large in amount
- Japanese: かなり (kanari) — large in amount
- Japanese: 相当 (sōtō) — large in amount
- Latin: aliquantus — large in amount
- Norwegian Bokmål: betydelig — large in amount
- Norwegian Bokmål: betraktelig — large in amount
- Norwegian Nynorsk: betydeleg — large in amount
- Norwegian Nynorsk: betrakteleg — large in amount
- Portuguese: considerável — large in amount
- Spanish: considerable — large in amount
- Spanish: cuantioso — large in amount
- Swedish: ansenlig — large in amount
- Swedish: beaktansvärd — large in amount
Real reading context