considerable
adjective
- elevated above others by status, wealth or power; of higher social or hierarchical standing
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩/ / /kənˈsɪdɹəbl̩/
adj
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.
- Significant; worth considering.
“Soon I became a considerable figure in the music industry.”
- Large in amount.
“Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.”
“With the cutting out of the previous recovery times for electrification work, curtailment of station times and acceleration, considerable reductions have been made in the overall schedules.”
noun
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.
- A thing to be considered, consideration.
“Statistes and Politicians, unto whom Ragione di Stato, is the first considerable, as though it were their businesse to deceive people, as a Maxime, do hold, that truth is to be concealed from them […]”