CONSIDERABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does considerable mean? 

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

1. large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSIDERABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree

Context example:

spent a considerable amount of time on the problem

Similar:

appreciable (enough to be estimated or measured)

goodish; goodly; healthy; hefty; respectable; sizable; sizeable; tidy (large in amount or extent or degree)

right smart ((Southern or Midland) considerable)

significant; substantial (of considerable importance, size, or worth)

Also:

big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)

Antonym:

inconsiderable (too small or unimportant to merit attention)

 Context examples 

It seems that a young lady has arrived in a considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me.

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

His fortune was a considerable one, and such a loss could not in any way affect him.

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

He was a man of little culture, but with a considerable amount of rude strength, both physically and mentally.

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

So ended one of the most remarkable evenings that London has seen for a considerable time.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He sat looking at the horse's ears, as if he saw something new there; and sat so, for a considerable time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I waited a considerable time for Van Helsing to begin, but he stood as if wrapped in thought.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Fourteen boats require a considerable spread of ocean for comfortable hunting, and when she had completely lapped our line she continued steaming into the north-east, dropping more boats as she went.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Their powers of conversation were considerable.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

There is considerable evidence that direct effects of increased mechanical stress are sensed within the ventricular wall and that signal is critical for the generation of growth responses.

(NFAT Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)