Synonyms for considerable
kənˈsɪd ər ə bəlcon·sid·er·able

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1. considerable

   Large denotes extension in more than one direction, and beyond the average of the class to which the object belongs; we speak of a large surface or a large solid, but of a long line; a large field, a large room, a large apple, etc. A large man is a man of more than ordinary size; a great man is a man of remarkable mental power. Big is a more emphatic word than large, but of less dignity. We do not say that George Washington was a big man.

   Synonyms:
   abundant, ample, big, broad, bulky, capacious, coarse, colossal, commodious, enormous, extensive, gigantic, grand, great, huge, immense, large, long, massive, spacious, vast, wide

   Antonyms:
   brief, diminutive, inconsiderable, infinitesimal, insignificant, limited, little, mean, microscopic, minute, narrow, paltry, petty, scanty, short, slender, slight, small, tiny, trifling, trivial

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1. considerable

   Synonyms:
   important, large, extensive

   Antonyms:
   unimportant, trifling, inconsiderable

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1. considerableadjective

   large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree

   "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"

   Antonyms:
   inconsiderable

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1. considerableadjective

   Synonyms:
   respectable, worthy of consideration

2. considerableadjective

   Synonyms:
   moderately large, not small

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1. List of paraphrases for "considerable":

   significant, substantial, great, large, sizeable, huge, major, enormous, important, tremendous, big, remarkable, notable, much, extensive, massive, appreciable, serious, many, vast, sizable, immense, dramatic, considerably, strong, wide, high, noticeable, very

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1. Gordon Conway:

   There are other countries where (increased) irrigation is possible: Burkina Faso, Senegal, and Mozambique, thousands of hectares could be irrigated with considerable potential.

2. Eric Hoffer:

   Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.

3. Professor Richard Sanders:

   If we can get the density of this instrument just right, it will sit neither sinking nor floating. Now that's easy to say but it's actually a considerable challenge to do... They weigh about 100 kilograms and we need to ballast them to approximately better than one gram. So that's a considerable challenge. The way that we do that is by putting them in tanks of water... and adding weights until they're just sinking; at which point we know they have the same density as the water that they're sitting in.

4. Forest McDonald:

   Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than did American bondsman. Modern scholarship has shown that the exploitation rate -- the percentage of the worker's production that was taken from him by his owners -- was lower among the slaves than among European peasants, that work loads were light, and that slaves actually experienced a considerable measure of personal freedom.

5. Nathaniel Hawthorne:

   No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.