inappreciable
Americanadjective
adjective
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incapable of being appreciated
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imperceptible; negligible
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Etymology
Origin of inappreciable
First recorded in 1780–90; in- 3 + appreciable
Vocabulary lists containing inappreciable
Example Sentences
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But if the natural changes in the Yellowstone appeared inappreciable, the artificial, the evolutionary changes were very striking.
From Down the Yellowstone by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
An influence goes abroad, and seems to be propagated through the atmosphere, traversing whole continents, and crossing wide oceans, powerful and deadly in its effects, yet inappreciable by the most delicate mechanical or chemical tests.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock
And it becomes inappreciable if the average number is fifteen.
From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol 3 of 3) Post-Darwinian Questions: Isolation and Physiological Selection by George John Romanes
In mammals the ilium is directed forward, and even in the Cape ant-eater Orycteropus there is only an inappreciable production of the bone backward behind the acetabulum.
From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by H. G. Seeley
By the term inappreciable I mean that it is not substantially greater than one-tenth of one per cent.—i.e. not more than one-thousandth.
From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol 3 of 3) Post-Darwinian Questions: Isolation and Physiological Selection by George John Romanes
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