Definition of Considerable

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Definition of Considerable
	Considerable Worthy of consideration, borne in mind, or attended to. Of some distinction; noteworthy; influential; respectable; -- said of persons. Of importance or value. Related Definitions: Attended, Borne, Consideration, Distinction, Importance, In, Mind, Noteworthy, Of, Or, Respectable, Said, Some, To, Value, Worthy

Considerable Quotations

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Thomas Sowell

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
Maimonides

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
Marilyn vos Savant

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
Miguel De Cervantes

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.
Karl Abraham

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
Michel Foucault

Considerable Translations

considerable in Dutch is geruim, aanmerkelijk, aanzienlijk
considerable in French is sortable, important
considerable in Italian is considerevole, rilevante, vistoso
considerable in Norwegian is betydelig
considerable in Spanish is respetable, notable, considerable

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