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considerable

adj
/kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩/

Etymology

From consider + -able.

  1. derived from considero
  2. derived from considerer
  3. inherited from consideren
  4. suffixed as considerable — “consider + able”

Definitions

  1. Significant

    Significant; worth considering.

    • Soon I became a considerable figure in the music industry.

  2. Large in amount.

    • With the cutting out of the previous recovery times for electrification work, curtailment of station times and acceleration, considerable reductions have been made in the overall schedules.

  3. A thing to be considered, consideration.

    • Statistes and Politicians, unto whom Ragione di Stato, is the first considerable, as though it were their businesse to deceive people, as a Maxime, do hold, that truth is to be concealed from them […]

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Derived

considerableness, inconsiderable, unconsiderable

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at considerable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at considerable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at considerable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA