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Sizeable   /sˈaɪzəbəl/   Listen
Sizeable

adjective
1.
Fairly large.  Synonyms: ample, sizable.  "An ample waistline" , "Of ample proportions"
2.
Large in amount or extent or degree.  Synonyms: goodish, goodly, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, tidy.  "A goodly amount" , "Received a hefty bonus" , "A respectable sum" , "A tidy sum of money" , "A sizable fortune"



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"Sizeable" Quotes from Famous Books



... Scot nearing fifty now. For many years he had answered the cries of the natives for help against the destroyers of human life. Sometimes it was a mugger, sometimes a cobra, a cheetah, often a man-eating tiger that terrorised the countryside. There are many sizeable Indian villages where there is not a single rifle or short piece in the place; repeated instances where one pampered beast has taken his tolls of cattle and children of ...
— Son of Power • Will Levington Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost

... the matter with you? You're an excellent chap, sound in wind and limb, and didn't you once tell me that, if you married, you came into a pretty sizeable ...
— Love Among the Chickens • P. G. Wodehouse

... What mustn't it have cost, now, for Grindhusen and me that summer! And then himself this autumn. In the old days it had been music and plenty at Ovrebo, and some of us had been asked into the parlour to sing. "I'll say no more," said Lars. "And now there's hardly a sizeable stick of timber left in ...
— Wanderers • Knut Hamsun



Words linked to "Sizeable" :   large, considerable, big



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