Definition of sizable
:fairly large :considerable
- a sizable donation
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a sizable portion of the population
He won by a sizable margin.
Recent Examples of sizable from the Web
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Your father-in-law’s repeated accidental winks to the white supremacist community is perhaps a savvy political strategy if the neo-Nazis are considered a sizable voting block—
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Namely, a sizable pay raise for corrections officers whose wages are the lowest in their field in the metro area.
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Before the doors opened, a sizable line of shoppers gathered on Crosby Street, waiting to scour racks of vintage Oscar de la Renta dresses, Norma Kamali jackets, and Diane von Furstenberg furs — for around $100 each.
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Motorists on East Pennsylvania Avenue in downtown Bel Air could be seen slowing down Wednesday for the new — and sizable — speed hump installed as part of a recent resurfacing of the street.
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The Western & Southern Open just received a sizable injection of American youth into its men's field.
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In lieu of spending billions of dollars to upgrade the Point Loma treatment plant, the city has agreed to recycle a sizable portion of that wastewater, diverting effluent that would have been partially treated and dumped into the sea.
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That's a sizable chunk of the 6,999 medallions issued by the city and a reflection of a stalling Chicago taxi market.
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While a sizable chunk of China’s economy may depend these days on building roads and rail lines into the desert using borrowed money, industrial production and services are also strong.
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First Known Use of sizable
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sizable Synonyms
Synonyms
big, biggish, boxcar, bulky, considerable, goodly, grand, great, handsome, hefty, hulking, husky, largish, outsize (also outsized), oversize (or oversized), large (or sizeable), substantial, tidy, voluminousAntonyms
bantam, dinky, dwarf, dwarfish, little, puny, shrimpy, small, smallish, undersized (also undersize)Related Words
astronomical (also astronomic), Brobdingnagian, bumper, Bunyanesque, cavernous, colossal, cosmic (also cosmical), cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, galactic, gargantuan, gigantic, gross, hellacious, herculean, heroic (also heroical), Himalayan, huge, humongous (also humungous), immense, jumbo, king-size (or king-sized), leviathan, major, mammoth, massive, monolithic, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, pharaonic, prodigious, staggering, stupendous, super, super-duper, supersized, titanic, tremendous, vast, vasty, walloping, whacking, whopping; excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, immoderate, inordinate; abundant, ample, appreciable, copious, plentiful; fat, thick; capacious, commodious, roomy, spaciousNear Antonyms
diminutive, half-pint, infinitesimal, Lilliputian, little-bitty, microminiature, 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; petite, slender, slight, slim, thinSIZABLE Defined for English Language Learners
SIZABLE Defined for Kids
sizable
adjective
siz·able
variants:
or
sizeable
\ˈsī-zə-bəl\
Definition of sizable for Students
:fairly large
a sizable contribution
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