APPRECIATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does appreciated mean? 

• APPRECIATED (adjective)
  The adjective APPRECIATED has 1 sense:

1. fully understood or grasped

  Familiarity information: APPRECIATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPRECIATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fully understood or grasped

Synonyms:

appreciated; apprehended; comprehended

Context example:

a thing comprehended is a thing known as fully as it can be known

Similar:

understood (fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation)

 Context examples 

All of which was appreciated and enjoyed by Martin.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Though most of the facts were familiar to me, I had not sufficiently appreciated their relative importance, nor their connection to each other.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It grew larger, and so swiftly that for the first time I fully appreciated the speed of our flight.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The Eagle Nebula did not have to wait so long for its full glory to be appreciated.

(VST Captures Three-In-One, ESO)

Just your being there will bring cheer, which will be appreciated by your beloved friend or relative.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least, and for a minute Amy was sorry she had done it, feeling that virtue was not always its own reward.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

To lie in wait for me now would mean that the creature had appreciated what had happened to me, and this in turn would argue some power connecting cause and effect.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What could I do but tell Miss Mills, with grateful looks and fervent words, how much I appreciated her good offices, and what an inestimable value I set upon her friendship!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Also, he appreciated the power with which they administered the law.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I appreciated that point, and I conjectured that it was dropped by the murderer in his hurried flight.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)