appreciable

American  

[uh-pree-shee-uh-buhl, -shuh-buhl] / əˈpri ʃi ə bəl, -ʃə bəl /

adjective

1. sufficient to be readily perceived or estimated; considerable.

   There is an appreciable difference between socialism and communism.

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appreciable British  

/ əˈpriːʃɪəbəl, -ʃəbəl /

adjective

1. sufficient to be easily seen, measured, or noticed

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Other Word Forms

• appreciably adverb
• unappreciable adjective
• unappreciably adverb

Etymology

Origin of appreciable

First recorded in 1810–20; appreci(ate) + -able

Example Sentences

Prerelease versions of 4o that were heavily trained with user signals didn’t show much appreciable improvement on internal evaluations of capabilities on things like science or reasoning, according to people who worked on the model.

From The Wall Street Journal

Glass-vitrine walls teasingly appreciable at great distances, even from the grand hall below, house dense, globe-trotting displays of ceramics.

From The Wall Street Journal

The surface at Seddon Park had a more appreciable straw-coloured hue, but the outcome for their Test contingent hoping to find form before they head across the Tasman Sea was similar.

From BBC

“And while it’s really hard to say for certain that this will happen over the course of the next 24 hours, it’s an appreciable risk for isolated storms to produce impacts like that.”

From Los Angeles Times

However, any frustration South Africa may have felt gave way to a sense of what might be possible in more appreciable conditions for batting after they were set a target of 282 for victory.

From BBC

Related Words

• definite
• detectable
• discernible
• marked
• measurable
• noticeable
• observable
• perceptible
• significant
• sizable
• substantial