Definition of sizable
: fairly large : considerable
- a sizable donation
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Examples of sizable in a Sentence
a sizable portion of the population
He won by a sizable margin.
Recent Examples of sizable from the Web
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Traditional album sales in the genre fell a sizable 26.9 percent to 10 million, while R&B/hip-hop digital song sales dropped 29.3 percent to 46.56 million.
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Because sometimes big hair calls for an equally sizable accessory.
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The Royals have a sizable group contending for spots, including 36-year-old non-roster invitee and veteran reliever Blaine Boyer.
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Board member Michael Goldman was the lone board member to raise significant concerns about the potential move, questioning whether the predicted savings over the next 20 years would be sizable enough to justify the expense of moving.
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Given Democrats’ dominance in Maryland, Hogan needs a coalition of Republicans, a sizable portion of Democrats and many unaffiliated voters to win in November.
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The lawsuit on behalf of Valley Chabad says that years ago, a town official voiced concerns that the town would end up like nearby Monsey, New York, which has a sizable Orthodox Jewish population.
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Brazil is the largest market for the sticker books, followed by the United States with its sizable Latino population and England.
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Cities like Dearborn and Hamtramck have sizable Muslim populations, who have increasingly become targets of some rightwing commentators.
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First Known Use of sizable
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sizable Synonyms
Synonyms
big, biggish, bulky, considerable, goodly, grand, great, handsome, hefty, hulking, husky, large, largish, outsize (also outsized), oversize (or oversized), substantial, tidy, voluminous;
Antonyms
bantam, dinky, dwarf, dwarfish, little, puny, shrimpy, small, smallish, undersized (also undersize);
Near Antonyms
diminutive, half-pint, infinitesimal, little-bitty, microscopic (also microscopical), mini, miniature, minuscule, minute, pint-size (or pint-sized), pocket-size (also pocket-sized), pygmy, teensy, teensy-weensy, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, wee;
Related Words
astronomical (also astronomic), bumper, cavernous, colossal, cosmic (also cosmical), elephantine, enormous, galactic, gargantuan, gigantic, gross, herculean, heroic (also heroical), Himalayan, huge, humongous (also humungous), immense, jumbo, king-size (or king-sized), leviathan, major, mammoth, massive, monolithic, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, staggering, stupendous, super, super-duper, supersized, titanic, tremendous, vast, vasty, walloping, whacking, whopping;
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: fairly large
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