Appreciable
adjective
Enough in quantity or degree to be noticed or measured.
There has been an appreciable increase in the temperature over the past few days.
Often appears as...
- appreciable amount
- appreciable degree
adjective
Enough in quantity or degree to be noticed or measured.
There has been an appreciable increase in the temperature over the past few days.
Often appears as...
- appreciable amount
- appreciable degree
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Not Always Positive
The term 'appreciable' doesn't mean something is good, just that it's significant enough to notice.
The project suffered an appreciable delay due to unforeseen problems.
Pro Tip 2/3Measurable Change
'Appreciable' often suggests that a change can be quantified or specifically measured.
After the budget cuts, there was an appreciable decrease in the quality of services.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Yet Significant
Sometimes 'appreciable' is used when the change isn't huge, but it's important and not negligible.
There's an appreciable difference in taste between the two recipes.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Always Positive
The term 'appreciable' doesn't mean something is good, just that it's significant enough to notice.
The project suffered an appreciable delay due to unforeseen problems.
Pro Tip 2/3Measurable Change
'Appreciable' often suggests that a change can be quantified or specifically measured.
After the budget cuts, there was an appreciable decrease in the quality of services.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Yet Significant
Sometimes 'appreciable' is used when the change isn't huge, but it's important and not negligible.
There's an appreciable difference in taste between the two recipes.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Always Positive
The term 'appreciable' doesn't mean something is good, just that it's significant enough to notice.
The project suffered an appreciable delay due to unforeseen problems.
Pro Tip 2/3Measurable Change
'Appreciable' often suggests that a change can be quantified or specifically measured.
After the budget cuts, there was an appreciable decrease in the quality of services.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Yet Significant
Sometimes 'appreciable' is used when the change isn't huge, but it's important and not negligible.
There's an appreciable difference in taste between the two recipes.
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Quote examples
Richard Lamm
American Politician
Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop. I believe that what we're developing in Denver is in no appreciable way different than what we're doing in Los Angeles - did in Los Angeles and are still doing. But I think we have developed the Los Angeles model of city-building, and I think it is unfortunate.
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Nick Harkaway
English Novelist
In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline.
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Jim Peebles
Canadian Scientist
I came from a very small high school in which there was no guidance and not any appreciable amount of physics taught, nor much mathematics. So I didn't know what academia was all about until I got to college.
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Edgar Allan Poe
American Poet
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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John W. Thompson
American Businessman
There has been no appreciable improvement in our country's ability to produce the kind of talent we need in this space. There have been some small initiatives around the country that have been noteworthy.
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Sidney Poitier
American Actor
An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.
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Ram Nath Kovind
Indian Politician
The pace of change and development in our country is rapid and appreciable.
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Richard Lamm
American Politician
Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop. I believe that what we're developing in Denver is in no appreciable way different than what we're doing in Los Angeles - did in Los Angeles and are still doing. But I think we have developed the Los Angeles model of city-building, and I think it is unfortunate.
Quote examples
Nick Harkaway
English Novelist
In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline.
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Jim Peebles
Canadian Scientist
I came from a very small high school in which there was no guidance and not any appreciable amount of physics taught, nor much mathematics. So I didn't know what academia was all about until I got to college.
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Edgar Allan Poe
American Poet
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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John W. Thompson
American Businessman
There has been no appreciable improvement in our country's ability to produce the kind of talent we need in this space. There have been some small initiatives around the country that have been noteworthy.
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Sidney Poitier
American Actor
An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.
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Ram Nath Kovind
Indian Politician
The pace of change and development in our country is rapid and appreciable.
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