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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

sizable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈsaɪzəbəl/
  • (General-American) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English size Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English sizable From size + -able.

Meanings

  1. Fairly large.
    • He gave a sizable cash donation, sizable enough that the IRS wondered where all that money came from.
    • A vulture can wolf more than two pounds of meat in a minute; a sizable crowd can strip a zebra—nose to tail—in 30 minutes. 2015 December, Elizabeth Royte, “Vultures Are Revolting. Here's Why We Need to Save Them.”, in National Geographic, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2015:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
more sizable Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most sizable Degree=Sup lexicographic
sizeable alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

unsizable · sizably · sizableness

Relateds

resizable

Synonyms

goodly · prodigious

Translations (21)

eo ampleksa (fairly large) · fi kookas (fairly large) · pl znaczny (fairly large) · fr ample (fairly large) · ar ضَخْم (fairly large) · sv ansenlig (fairly large) · gl grandeiro (fairly large) · gd tomadach (fairly large) · eo larĝa (fairly large) · el ευρύς (fairly large) · ltg makans (fairly large) · eo vasta (fairly large) · de beträchtlich (fairly large) · pl znaczący (fairly large) · ca apreciable (fairly large) · pt considerável (fairly large) · fr étendu (fairly large) · lv prāvs (fairly large) · fr large (fairly large) · grc εὐρύς (fairly large) · bg доста голям (fairly large)