Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - considerable

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. Considerable means great in amount or degree. (FORMAL) To be without Pearce would be a considerable blow... Doing it properly makes considerable demands on our time... Vets’ fees can be considerable, even for routine visits. = substantial ADJ: usu ADJ n • considerably Children vary considerably in the rate at which they learn these lessons... Their dinner parties had become considerably less formal. = significantly ADV: ADV with v, ADV compar