sizably
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3.8
- adverb
- /ˈsaɪzəbli/
- US
- With almost 60 million inhabitants, Iran represents a sizably larger threat than Iraq, with its 20 million.
Examples
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Today the Greek Cypriots, sizably outnumbered by the Turks, were able to put up little resistance.
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The new policy will sizably improve the quality of education in our schools.
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the loss pretty, pretty. Sizably so anyway.
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If I'm not sizably impressed by the quality of
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His defensive rebounding was the lowest of his entire career this last season, and his three-point shooting was sizably reduced.
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After two years, flood insurance coverage should be sizably reduced, and premiums should be raised to reflect the increasing risk of undermining by erosion.
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The addition of personal characteristics and the neighborhood poverty rate and population density variables did not sizably change the magnitude or significance of the coefficient on small grocery store density.
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Comparing the measurement models with the independence or null models where there were no correlations among variables, the chi-square values and ECVI indices were all sizably reduced.
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Beginning with some descriptive data, Table 2 indicates that incumbent receipts grew sizably after 2008—and especially in 2012, the first full election cycle under the Citizens United campaign finance regime.
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Even though the population of Jamaica remained substantially below mainland colonies such as Virginia and Massachusetts throughout the eighteenth century, Jamaica attracted sizably more migrants, the majority being unwillingly coerced slaves from Africa, than any other colony in the century before the American Revolution.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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3.5
By a large, noticeable amount that makes a difference
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1.0
By a very large amount
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3.4
By a large amount
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4.9
To a large degree
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3.5
To a very large degree
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3.0
By a very large amount
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2.1
To a very great degree
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3.4
To a great degree
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3.5
To a large degree
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7.4
To a very large degree
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5.4
To a very great degree that you cannot count
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4.4
In a way you can measure or clearly notice
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5.8
To a very large degree
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8.9
In a very large way
Antonyms
How Much
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1.0
123
4.9
140
3.4
- US
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811
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880
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sizably comes from the noun size plus the ending -ably, which makes an adverb, and is like sizable meaning 'quite large'. So sizably means 'to a considerable or large extent' or 'by a significant amount'.