Considerably

Definition: Considerably

Considerably

Adverb

1. To a great extent or degree; "I'm afraid the film was well over budget"; "painting the room white made it seem considerably (or substantially) larger"; "the house has fallen considerably in value"; "the price went up substantially".

Date "considerably" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Considerably

Synonyms: substantially (adv), well (adv). (additional references)

Domain	Title
Books	Dress Like a Million (On Considerably Less): A Trend-Proof Guide to Real Fashion (reference) (more book examples)
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	Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Bald Eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, adults (more than 5 years old) are unmistakable with dark brown plumage except for white head, neck and tails. The beak, eyes, legs, and feet are yellow. Wing span up to 2.5 meters, with females considerably larger than males. Immature eagles lack white plumage and yellow accents. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).		Figure 14. Apstein plankton tube. Above: Top view. Below: bottom view. Invented by Carl Apstein who had been studying lake fauna. Apstein collaborated with Hensen to work in the Baltic and North Seas. Apstein perceived quickly that methods of work would have to vary considerably from lake work and made thi s instrument for collecting small plankton under difficult conditions. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
	Contour buffer strips in Tama County changed the row pattern of the farming operation considerably, as the new contour pattern for the buffers contrasted with previous straighter farming lines. Credit: Tim McCabe.		Photographed circa mid- or late 1918, after her "dazzle" camouflage had weathered considerably. Credit: NAVY.
	"Poor bloody blokes. On the other hand the unemployment figures should sink considerably, eh what?". Credit: Library of Congress.		Family of Glen Cook, who rents his farm from a loan company. Cook's livestock has been cut down considerably due to lack of feed. Little Sioux township, Woodbury County, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Before receiving his rehabilitation loan, John Dixon's debts were considerably reduced by a Farm Debt Adjustment Committee. Saint Charles County, Missouri. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	In the coffin he had stiffened considerably, somewhat in reality like a corpse.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	His only books were an almanac and an arithmetic, in which last he was considerably expert.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The rate of development can vary considerably among patients. (references)
		Annual incidence varies considerably because of periodic outbreaks. (references)
		Considerably less experience is recorded in the use of contact dissolution agents. (references)
Business		Curtain trends vary considerably throughout Europe. (references)
		It's considerably expensive to own a vehicle in Singapore. (references)
		Consequently, a variety of services will expand considerably. (references)
Children	Pakistan	A survey found that the enrollment rate for girls under age 12 was 65 percent, which was less than that of boys (75 percent), but considerably was higher than the 1990 figure of 50 percent. (references)
Civil Liberties	Egypt	The Government controls and censors the broadcast media considerably. (references)
	Niger	Attacks by bandits on major routes to the north have declined considerably. (references)
Economic History	China	Censorship standards vary considerably throughout China. (references)
	Trinidad	Wages and salaries vary considerably between industries. (references)
	Brazil	Functional illiteracy is considerably higher than the noted rates. (references)
Human Rights	Botswana	The quality of decisions reached in the traditional courts varies considerably. (references)
	Bangladesh	Trials often are characterized by lengthy adjournments, which considerably prolong the incarceration of accused persons who do not receive bail. (references)
	Tanzania	The role of the cells has diminished considerably, particularly in areas where opposition parties are strong; however, the CCM remained influential. (references)
Minorities	Hungary	Roma suffer from government and societal discrimination, racist attacks, and are considerably less educated, and have lower than average incomes and life expectancy. (references)
	Congo	Both Biteo and Mulongo were released in August 1999. Allegations in state-owned and progovernment media that European governments supported antigovernment forces decreased considerably during the year. (references)
	Hungary	Minority self-government has been criticized mainly on two grounds; first, several minority representatives have objected to the fact that members of the majority can vote for minority candidates and thus influence minority politics; second, critics call for an increase in the competence of the minority self-governments and considerably more financial resources for them. (references)
Political Economy	PANAMA	Nevertheless, FDI has dropped considerably. (references)
	MALAYSIA	Working conditions and occupational safety concerns are considerably worse in the plantation sector. (references)
	BULGARIA	In 1998, enforcement improved considerably with the introduction of a CD-production licensing system. (references)
Trade	Argentina	Rates vary considerably, reaching up to 60 percent of the retail price in the case of cigarettes. (references)
	Panama	The new accord eliminates these problems and should open the way for considerably greater OPIC activity in Panama. (references)
	Germany	Information on customs regulations and tariffs is available from German customs offices, and can differ considerably depending on the products. (references)
Travel	Taiwan	Rental costs vary considerably, depending on location and size. (references)
	Chad	Lake Chad: The size of the lake varies considerably through out the year. (references)
	Pakistan	Delivery times for sea freight are considerably longer and more variable. (references)
Women	Fiji	Garment workers, most of whom are Indo-Fijian, ethnic Fijian, and Chinese females, receive wages that are considerably lower than in other sectors. (references)
	Namibia	Traditional practices that permit family members to confiscate the property of deceased men from their widows and children still existed; however, the frequency of such cases lessened considerably during the year. (references)
Worker Rights	Ghana	Fines and imprisonment for violators are increased considerably. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. INSURANCE AGENT: My dear sir, that is a fine house -- pray let me insure it. HOUSE OWNER: With pleasure. Please make the annual premium so low that by the time when, according to the tables of your actuary, it will probably be destroyed by fire I will have paid you considerably less than the face of the policy. INSURANCE AGENT: O dear, no -- we could not afford to do that. We must fix the premium so that you will have paid more. HOUSE OWNER: How, then, can I afford that? INSURANCE AGENT: Why, your house may burn down at any time. There was Smith's house, for example, which -- HOUSE OWNER: Spare me -- there were Brown's house, on the contrary, and Jones's house, and Robinson's house, which -- INSURANCE AGENT: Spare me! HOUSE OWNER: Let us understand each other. You want me to pay you money on the supposition that something will occur previously to the time set by yourself for its occurrence. In other words, you expect me to bet that my house will not last so long as you say that it will probably last. INSURANCE AGENT: But if your house burns without insurance it will be a total loss. HOUSE OWNER: Beg your pardon -- by your own actuary's tables I shall probably have saved, when it burns, all the premiums I would otherwise have paid to you -- amounting to more than the face of the policy they would have bought. But suppose it to burn, uninsured, before the time upon which your figures are based. If I could not afford that, how could you if it were insured? INSURANCE AGENT: O, we should make ourselves whole from our luckier ventures with other clients. Virtually, they pay your loss. HOUSE OWNER: And virtually, then, don't I help to pay their losses? Are not their houses as likely as mine to burn before they have paid you as much as you must pay them? The case stands this way: you expect to take more money from your clients than you pay to them, do you not? INSURANCE AGENT: Certainly; if we did not -- HOUSE OWNER: I would not trust you with my money. Very well then. If it is certain, with reference to the whole body of your clients, that they lose money on you it is probable, with reference to any one of them, that he will. It is these individual probabilities that make the aggregate certainty. INSURANCE AGENT: I will not deny it -- but look at the figures in this pamph -- HOUSE OWNER: Heaven forbid! INSURANCE AGENT: You spoke of saving the premiums which you would otherwise pay to me. Will you not be more likely to squander them? We offer you an incentive to thrift. HOUSE OWNER: The willingness of A to take care of B's money is not peculiar to insurance, but as a charitable institution you command esteem. Deign to accept its expression from a Deserving Object.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809	The expenses of diplomatic agency have been considerably diminished.
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	In the future we expect incomes considerably higher than before the war.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Considerably" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Considerably" is used about 2,911 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	2,911	3,203

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "considerably": considerably-from.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "considerably"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		aansienlik. (various references)

Albanian		shumë (amount, awful, awfully, badly, confoundedly, consumedly, damnably, dearly, deep, deuced, devilish, ever so, far, far and away, good few, greatly, heap, heartily, highly, jolly, largely, like mad, lot, lots of, lump, many, million, most, much, no end of, not a few, notedly, number, oodles, passing, passingly, Peck, poly-, precious, price, proceeds, quantum, quite, really, remarkably, scrip, so, sorely, sum, summation, thumping, too, tot, total, totality, umpteen, vastly, very, very much, widely). (various references)

Arabic		‏كثيرا (extremely, frequently, much, so), ‏جدا (enormously, exceedingly, extremely, greatly, highly, immensely, much, quite, so, tremendously, very, very much indeed). (various references)

Bulgarian		значително (greatly, notably, sensibly, some, substantially, widely), порядъчно (pretty well, properly), доста (distinctly, great deal, half, nice and, pretty, quite, rather, reasonably, some, somewhat, tolerably, well). (various references)

Chinese		相當 (appropriate, equivalent to, fairly, to a certain extent), 可观地. (various references)

Czech		znaènì (extensively, greatly, substantially). (various references)

Danish		ved strengstobning faas direkte et halvfabrikat;herved reduceres tabene som affald betydeligt (continuous casting produces semi-finished products by by-passing the ingot stage and considerably reduces losses due to cropping), raekkevidden af de elektromagnetiske boelger indskraenkes betydeligt ved daempning og reflektion (damping and reflection phenomena underground considerably impede the range of electromagnetic waves), molybdaen forbedrer finheden af udskillelserne og deres fordeling i betydelig grad (molybdenum considerably imyroves the fineness of the precipitates and their distribution), legeringernes smeltepunkt saenkes betydeligt af kulstof hvorved stoebeligheden forbedres (carbon markedly lowers the melting point of the alloy and thus considerably improves its castability), indhaerdningsdybden for dette chromstaal er vaesentlig stoerre end for et chrom-frit staal med samme kulstofindhold (the extent of hardening in this chromium steel is considerably larger than in an unalloyed steel of the same carbon content), efter lang holdetid fortsaetter omdannelsen,idet der opstaar en vaesentligt grovere,perlitlignende struktur (the transformation continues to form a considerably coarser eutectoid similar to pearlite, with long holding times), den radioaktive forurening kan variere under indflydelse af tilstedevaerelsen af komplexdannere eller som foElge af forskelle i de metaboliske forhold (contamination can vary considerably in accordance with differences in chelation ( i. e. formation of chelates or complexes by chelating agents ) and in metabolic behaviour). (various references)

Dutch		aanzienlýk (aristocratic, considerable, eminent, sizable). (various references)

Esperanto		konsiderinde. (various references)

Finnish		tuntuvasti (perceptibly), suuresti (greatly, highly, much), melkosesti, kelpo lailla (quite a lot), huomattavasti (appreciably, markedly, noticeably, perceptibly). (various references)

French		important (consequential, considerable). (various references)

Frisian		tige (quite, very, very much), folle. (various references)

German		wesentlich (appreciable, considerable, esentially, essential, essentially, fundamental, fundamentally, important, integral, intrinsic, material, materially, primary, prime, substantial, substantially, substantive, vastly, vital, vitally), beträchtlich (appreciable, broadly, considerable, extensive, extensively, goodly, great, handsome, important, notable, notably, respectable, serious, sizable, sizeable, sizeably, substantially). (various references)

Greek		αρκετά (considerableably, enough, fairly, pretty, quite, rather, reasonably, sufficiently). (various references)

Hebrew		ב�"תחשב ב- (considering, with respect). (various references)

Hungarian		jelentékeny mértékben, meglehetősen (fairly, more or less, pretty, pretty much, some). (various references)

Italian		considerevolmente, notevolmente (remarkably). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		著しく (remarkably, strikingly), 少なからず (in no small numbers, not a little), � からず (in no small numbers, not a little), 大分 (a lot, greatly), 中々 (by no means, easily, fairly, highly, quite, rather, readily, very), 中中 (by no means, easily, fairly, highly, quite, rather, readily, very), 可成 (fairly, quite), 可也 (fairly, quite). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		すくなからず (in no small numbers, not a little), なかなか (by no means, easily, fairly, highly, quite, rather, readily, very), かなり (fairly, quite), いちじるしく (remarkably, strikingly), � いぶ�" (a lot, greatly), � いぶ (a good deal, a lot, fairly, greater, greatly, most, much). (various references)

Korean		상당하게 (Passably). (various references)

Pig Latin		onsiderablycay

Portuguese		consideravelmente (extensively, pretty, quite, substantially). (various references)

Romanian		considerabil (appreciable, considerable, extensive, fair, far, great, handsome, heavy, large, notably, notedly, noticeably, sensible, significant, tidy, wide), sensibil (appreciably, considerable, delicate, feeling, impressible, impressionable, marked, noticeably, painful, palpable, passible, responsive, scrupulous, sensible, sensitive, sentient, susceptible, tangible, tender, thin-skinned, touchy). (various references)

Russian		изрядно (fair amount). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		znatno (notably, notedly, noticeably, strikingly), uveliko. (various references)

Spanish		considerablemente. (various references)

Swedish		kraftigt (forcibly, hard, heavily, powerfully, richly, stiffly, sturdily, virtuously), betydligt (meaningly, signficantly, significantly, well). (various references)

Ukrainian		значно (estimably, far, gey, greatly, lot, much, notably, noticeably, out and away, well), багато (a lot, a lot of, abundantly, deep, galore, lots of, many, much, no end of, not a few, opulently, prodigally, richly). (various references)

Vietnamese		nhiều (abounding, abundant, affluent, different, full, lot, lousy, many, much, multifarious, multiple, numerously, spate, teemful, widely), lớn lao (grandiose, prodigious, substantively), đáng kể (considerable, notably, respectable, round, signally). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	aliquanto. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "considerably": inconsiderably. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Considerably" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: considerabley, considerablly. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "considerably" (pronounced kunsi"derublē)
5	-er u b l ē	admirably, comparably, favorably, honorably, incomparably, inexorably, inseparably, intolerably, irreparably, measurably, memorably, miserably, preferably, unalterably, unfavorably.
4	-u b l ē	amiably, amicably, appreciably, arguably, audibly, charitably, comfortably, conceivably, credibly, creditably, demonstrably, equitably, fashionably, feasibly, flexibly, forcibly, formidably, horribly, impeccably, imperceptibly, implausibly, impossibly, improbably, incredibly, indelibly, indisputably, inevitably, inexplicably, inextricably, interchangeably, interminably, invariably, irresistibly, irresponsibly, irretrievably, irreversibly, irrevocably, justifiably, knowledgeably, notably, noticeably, ostensibly, palpably, passably, peaceably, plausibly, possibly, predictably, presumably, probably, profitably, reasonably, recognizably, regrettably, reliably, remarkably, respectably, responsibly, sensibly, suitably, terribly, unacceptably, unaccountably, unavoidably, unbearably, unbelievably, uncomfortably, uncontrollably, undeniably, understandably, unequivocably, unjustifiably, unmistakably, unpredictably, unquestionably, unreasonably, unseasonably, visibly.
3	-b l ē	ably, assembly, bubbly, doubly, feebly, glibly, humbly, immeasurably, nimbly, nobly, reassembly, subassembly, superbly, trembly.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-i-l-n-o-r-s-y"
	-1 letter: secondarily.
	-2 letters: bandoliers, debonairly.
	-3 letters: absconder, acroleins, albicores, anybodies, balconied, balconies, banderols, bandolier, bilanders, boneyards, bracioles, braconids, cabrioles, carbinols, carbonyls, censorial, clarioned, colanders, conelrads, corydalis, cylinders, desirably, ironclads, secondary, synodical.
	-4 letters: acrolein, acyloins, aerobics, ailerons, albicore, alienors, alnicoes, aneroids, ascribed, baldrics, baloneys, banderol, bandores, baronies, baryonic, bedrails, bedsonia, biasedly, bicornes, bilander, bilayers, binocles, bioclean.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-e-i-l-n-o-r-s-y"
	+2 letters: inconsiderably.
	+4 letters: decarboxylations.
	+5 letters: deoxyribonuclease.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
changed considerably demographics fact have known labor last market over that twenty well years	2
considerably	2
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Considerably

Definition: Considerably

Considerably

Adverb

Synonyms: Considerably

Crosswords: Considerably

Commercial Usage: Considerably

Books

Photo Album: Considerably

Use in Literature: Considerably

Emma

Austen, Jane

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-Fiction Usage: Considerably

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Speeches: Considerably

Thomas Jefferson

Harry S. Truman

Usage Frequency: Considerably

Expression: Considerably

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Considerably

Modern Translation: Considerably

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Ancestral Language Translations: Considerably

Derivations & Misspellings: Considerably

Derivations

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Rhyming with "Considerably"

Anagrams: Considerably

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