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appreciable
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  • The tide was almost full, still running in, so there was no appreciable width of drying hard sand.†  (source)
  • To be sure, an appreciable number had no trade.†  (source)
  • During the first days they did not come across any appreciable obstacle.†  (source)
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  • But in this case the piower of suggestion failed, and the second bottle of pills was swallowed by Barrabas in a moment of oversight that fortunately had no appreciable results.†  (source)
    appreciable = enough to be noticed or important
  • Just at that instant Duane felt an almost inappreciable movement of the adobe wall which supported him.†  (source)
    inappreciable = not enough to be noticed or important
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inappreciable means not and reverses the meaning of appreciable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
  • The majority of those blessed with magic have little or no appreciable talent; they struggle to heal even so much as a bruise.†  (source)
    appreciable = enough to be noticed or important
  • The two rooms looked onto the street—a fact which Signor Pastrini commented upon as an inappreciable advantage.†  (source)
    inappreciable = not enough to be noticed or important
  • He would later write: "The prolonged aerial bombardment of Iwo Jima, which was a daily occurrence for over seventy days, had no appreciable effect in the reduction of the enemy's well-prepared and heavily fortified defensive installations."†  (source)
    appreciable = enough to be noticed or important
  • 'How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death?†  (source)
    inappreciable = not enough to be noticed or important
  • They settled down an appreciable amount, and began inventing obscene verses to "Tinker Tanner."†  (source)
    appreciable = enough to be noticed or important
  • Probably to Leora one building differed from another— she appeared to distinguish between the general store of Norblom and that of Frazier & Lamb—but to Martin the two-story wooden shacks creeping aimlessly along the wide Main Street were featureless and inappreciable.†  (source)
    inappreciable = not enough to be noticed or important
  • At this rate we are not going to get any appreciable amount of maple syrup.†  (source)
    appreciable = enough to be noticed or important
  • In such a situation time is inappreciable; so that Ben-Hur could form no judgment of distance gone.†  (source)
    inappreciable = not enough to be noticed or important
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