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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Battle may be at the heart of God of War, but navigating the sprawling Norse realms will require a sizable dose of puzzle-solving skills too, as was the case in previous games.
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Given a sizable advantage, Hyun-Jin Ryu kept it safe.
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His plan also dedicates a sizable portion of city general funds to the debt payments – money that commissioners might otherwise use for pet projects.
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Because of an election held eight years ago in 2010, Republicans in many states will enter the 2018 midterms with a sizable advantage.
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Of the more than $125 billion in damages caused by Hurricane Harvey, Houston-area schools made up a sizable portion of that figure.
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But Texas has 254 counties, and unreported GOP early voting in those gave Republicans a sizable advantage in both early and Election Day voting.
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As a bit of an ideological outcast among the field, Treviño has not limited his attacks to Hurd and President Donald Trump, also knocking Hulings and Jones for their sizable fundraising advantage.
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With a sizable portion of attendees at Sunday’s awards show wearing black to support the Time’s Up initiative, King says the Cecil B. DeMille Award winner simply wanted to honor the evening’s tone.
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First Known Use of sizable
1613
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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