Appreciate vs Appreciable - What's the difference?
appreciate | appreciable |
to be grateful or thankful for.
to view as valuable.
to be fully conscious of; be aware of; detect.
* Lubbock
to increase in value.
* Ramsay
Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; considerable.
* 1865 , , Our Mutual Friend , ch. 15:
* 1915 , , Something New , ch. 1:
* 2002 , John J. Mearsheimer, "Realism, the Real World, and the Academy," in Realism and Institutionalism in International Studies (M. Brecher and F. P. Harvey, eds.), ISBN 9780472088591, p. 27:
As a verb appreciate
is to be grateful or thankful for.As an adjective appreciable is
capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; considerable.appreciate
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(appreciat)- I appreciate your efforts
- You must learn to appreciate time
- To test the power of bees to appreciate color.
- to test the power of bees to appreciate colour
- The value of his portfolio appreciated by 80% over eight years.
- lest a sudden peace should appreciate the money
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeSynonyms
* esteem * estimate * understandAntonyms
* depreciateReferences
* * * * *appreciable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- A grain of musk will scent a drawer for many years, and still lose nothing appreciable of its original weight.
- For an appreciable time he did not think of rising from his seat.
- If NEAsia were a zone of peace, those American forces would be unnecessary and they could be sent home and demobilized, saving the U.S. taxpayer an appreciable sum of money.
