# considerable

Pronunciation: say "kuhn-SID-ur-uh-buhl" /kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩/

## Adjective

1. Large in amount, size, or extent.
   - Simple: Quite large in amount, number, or size.
   - _The project required a considerable investment of time and money._
   - _There was considerable damage to the building after the storm._
2. Significant and worth taking into account or paying serious attention to.
   - Simple: Important enough to be worth thinking about or paying attention to.
   - _The discovery was of considerable importance to the field of medicine._
   - _He is a person of considerable influence in local politics._

## Noun

3. A matter or point that must be taken into account; a consideration. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: A thing that someone needs to think about before deciding.
   - _The judge laid out each considerable before passing his sentence._
   - _Among the many considerables, the cost of the voyage troubled them most._

## Origin

Formed from the verb "consider" combined with the suffix "-able".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/considerable (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).