appreciable

[uh-pree-shee-uh-buhl, -shuh-buhl]

adjective

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

   There is an appreciable difference between socialism and communism.

appreciable

/ əˈpriːʃɪəbəl, -ʃəbəl /

adjective

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

Other Word Forms

• appreciably adverb
• unappreciable adjective
• unappreciably adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of appreciable¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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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.

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“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.”

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Temporarily funding the government for seven weeks, in their view, just moves that subsidy deadline closer without any appreciable progress.

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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.

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