considerable

adjective more considerable · most considerable

1. Significant; worth considering. Soon I became a considerable figure in the music industry.
2. Large in amount. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slather

   Similar: good-sized, round

Opposite: ignorable, negligible

noun considerables

1. obsolete 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 […]