sizable

English

Alternative forms

• sizeable

Etymology

From size +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪzəbəl/

• Audio (General American):

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Adjective

sizable (comparative more sizable, superlative most sizable)

1. Fairly large.

   He gave a sizable cash donation, sizable enough that the IRS wondered where all that money came from.

   • 2015 December, Elizabeth Royte, “Vultures Are Revolting. Here's Why We Need to Save Them.”, in National Geographic‎, archived from the original on 13 December 2015:

     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.

Synonyms

• goodly
• prodigious

Derived terms

• sizableness
• sizably
• unsizable

Related terms

• resizable

Translations

fairly large

Bulgarian: доста голям (dosta goljam) Catalan: apreciable Esperanto: ampleksa, larĝa (eo), vasta (eo) Finnish: kookas (fi) French: ample (fr), étendu (fr), large (fr) Galician: grandeiro Greek: ευρύς (el) (evrýs) Ancient: εὐρύς (eurús) Latgalian: makans Latvian: prāvs m Polish: znaczny (pl), znaczący (pl) Portuguese: considerável (pt) Scottish Gaelic: tomadach Swedish: ansenlig (sv)

Anagrams

• balizes