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Definition of Sizable

1. Adjective. Fairly large. "Of ample proportions"

2. Adjective. Large in amount or extent or degree. "A sizable fortune"

Definition of Sizable

1. a. Of considerable size or bulk.

Definition of Sizable

1. Adjective. (US Canada) Fairly large. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sizable

1. of considerable size [adj] : SIZABLY [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sizable

sixty-nining sixty-ninth sixty-one sixty-oneth sixty-second sixty-seven sixty-seventh sixty-six sixty-sixth sixty-third

sixty-three sixty-two sixty cycle hum sixtyfold sixtyish sizable (current term) sizableness sizablenesses sizably sizar

sizars sizarship sizarships size size-zero size constancy size of it size perception

Literary usage of Sizable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Snake Walkers by J. Everett Prewitt (2005)
"Some were open to strangers and some suspicious of them. As he parked on a side street, he saw colored people in a sizable number walking, working, ..."

2. Life of Campestris Ulm: The Oldest Inhabitant of Boston Common by Joseph Henry Curtis (1910)
"These, together with good sizable round bronze rails, would afford a sort of standing invitation to teamsters and chauffeurs to bump, and bump, ..."

3. Mental Health, United States, 1996 edited by Ronald W. Manderscheid, Mary A. Sonnenschein (1998)
"Further, in 1983, under 26 percent of the counties in metropolitan trade areas with sizable towns had inpatient services. This increased to 50 percent for ..."

4. The Colonial Laws of New York from the Year 1664 to the Revolution by New York (State), Charles Zebina Lincoln, William H. Johnson, Ansel Judd Northrup (1894)
"... powder & three pound of sizable Bullets on penalty of Ten Shillings for every default. AND be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the companies ..."

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