appreciable

1. 1.

   enough to be estimated or measured

   “appreciable amounts of noxious wastes are dumped into the harbor”

   Similarconsiderable

Questions about appreciable

What does appreciable mean?

appreciable means "enough to be estimated or measured".

How many syllables are in appreciable?

appreciable has 4 syllables: ap-pre-cia-ble. The stress falls on "pre". In IPA it is /əˈpɹiʃəbəl/.

Is appreciable a common word?

appreciable is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.