Entry Word: considerable

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 sufficiently large in size, amount, or number to merit attention <the considerable number of auto accidents that resulted from the surprise snowstorm>

Synonyms good, goodly, good-sized, healthy, largish, respectable, significant, sizable (or sizeable), substantial, tidy

Related Words big, colossal, enormous, gigantic, great, huge, immense, mammoth

Near Antonyms piddling, puny, trivial, unimportant; marginal, meager, slight; little, small, tiny

Antonyms inconsiderable, insignificant, insubstantial

2 of a size greater than average of its kind <a house with a considerable barn in back> — see large