appreciably
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4.9
- adverb
- /əˈpriːʃəblɪ/
:
apreciablemente
- Her skills have improved appreciably since she started practicing regularly.
- change appreciably
- reduce appreciably
- improve appreciably
Wouldn't help the country, wouldn't appreciably solve the deficit problem.
- Wouldn't help the country, wouldn't appreciably solve the deficit problem.
- If you do easy things now, your life's going to become appreciably more difficult in the long run.
- I don't need it to be appreciably different.
- So for the most part they are, they are rarely appreciably different.
- If you build a culture where people focus on control rather than speed of execution, then the injury rate goes down appreciably.
Examples
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Reducing market barriers will not appreciably encourage conservation investments, nor will resources be allocated more efficiently.
Academic text (1991) -
But if you look at the data, schools did get appreciably better in this country during that period.
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The writing ability of most of these students does not improve appreciably during college.
Academic text (1994) -
If you do easy things now, your life's going to become appreciably more difficult in the long run.
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Although convocation did not increase the sales of my books appreciably, the publicity affected my mail.
Fiction book (1991) -
When the numbers of colonies fall appreciably, some amount of disinfection has occurred.
Academic text (2008) -
Perceived access into the economic system does not appear to vary appreciably by sect.
Academic text (1999) -
The proportion of trips to deep water did not decline appreciably until 1993-94.
Academic text (1998) -
As could be expected, the realm of permissible debate has narrowed appreciably in recent decades.
Academic text (1993) -
Postmodern architecture produces urban forms that are appreciably different from those of modernism.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
351
3.5
By a large, noticeable amount that makes a difference
350
1.0
By a very large amount
144
3.4
By a large amount
129
4.9
To a large degree
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3.5
To a large degree
4
4.4
In a way you can measure or clearly notice
3
5.2
In a way that is easy to notice
In a way that can be easily noticed
Antonyms
How Noticeable
Surface Forms
Morphology
appreciably = appreciable (semi-transparent) = appreciate + appreciable + able + ly
Forming an adverb by adding '-ly' to the adjective 'appreciable' is a regular, predictable process and yields the expected meaning 'in a noticeable way'.
Etymology
Appreciably comes from appreciate, which originally meant to give a 'price' or 'value' to something, like the common word price. So when something changes appreciably, it has changed enough that you can notice or 'value' the difference.