considerable

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A thing to be considered, consideration. obsolete
    — 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 […]
形容词 adj.
  1. Significant; worth considering.
    — Soon I became a considerable figure in the music industry.
  2. 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.

词形变化

more considerable comparative most considerable superlative considerables plural

词汇关系

反义词
ignorable negligible
衍生词
considerableness inconsiderable unconsiderable
相关词
consider considerably

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
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