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SIZEABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sizeable mean? 

SIZEABLE (adjective)
  The adjective SIZEABLE has 2 senses:

1. fairly large in sizeplay

2. large in amount or extent or degreeplay

  Familiarity information: SIZEABLE used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SIZEABLE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Fairly large in size

Synonyms:

ample; sizable; sizeable

Context example:

of ample proportions

Similar:

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

Derivation:

sizeableness (unusual largeness in size or extent or number)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Large in amount or extent or degree

Synonyms:

goodish; goodly; healthy; hefty; respectable; sizable; sizeable; tidy

Context example:

a sizable fortune

Similar:

considerable (large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree)

Derivation:

sizeableness (unusual largeness in size or extent or number)


 Context examples 


In spite of this, a sizeable number of infants still develop rickets.

(Higher Dose of Vitamin D Increases Bone Density in Premature Babies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They are awarded sizeable amounts of flexible funding to enable them to rapidly address emerging scientific opportunities or specific challenges.

(Centers of Research Excellence, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers found dozens of sizeable permanently shadowed regions across the northern hemisphere.

(Dawn Maps Ceres Craters Where Ice Can Accumulate, NASA)



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