All 9 Uses of
appreciate
in
This Side of Paradise
- She would not have appreciated the Japanese invasion.†
Chpt 1.1
- In the proper land and century he might have been a Richelieu—at present he was a very moral, very religious (if not particularly pious) clergyman, making a great mystery about pulling rusty wires, and appreciating life to the fullest, if not entirely enjoying it.†
Chpt 1.1
- "Joe's" was unaesthetic and faintly unsanitary, but a limitless charge account could be opened there, a convenience that Amory appreciated.†
Chpt 1.2
- She appreciated this.†
Chpt 1.2
- He talked of Greenwich Village now instead of "noon-swirled moons," and met winter muses, unacademic, and cloistered by Forty-second Street and Broadway, instead of the Shelleyan dream-children with whom he had regaled their expectant appreciation.†
Chpt 1.3
- Amory tried politely to appreciate them, and gave up laughingly.†
Chpt 1.4
- I honestly think that's all pretty much rot, though it seemed to give sentimental comfort to those at home; and may make fathers and mothers appreciate their children.†
Chpt 1.4
- Mackenzie, Chesterton, Galsworthy, Bennett, had sunk in his appreciation from sagacious, life-saturated geniuses to merely diverting contemporaries.†
Chpt 2.2
- He realized that he was safe and only then did he appreciate the full enormity of what he might have incurred.†
Chpt 2.4 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(appreciate as in: I appreciate your help.) to recognize the value or importance of
and/or:
to be grateful for -
(2)
(appreciate as in: I appreciate the complexities) to understand a situation-often one with important complications
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(3)
(appreciate as in: We hope our home will appreciate) to increase in value