Noticeable vs Considerable - What's the difference?
noticeable | considerable |
Worthy of note; significant.
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, chapter=6 Capable of being seen or noticed.
* November 17 2012 , BBC Sport: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham [http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20278355]
Significant; worth considering.
Large in amount.
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As adjectives the difference between noticeable and considerable
is that noticeable is worthy of note; significant while considerable is significant; worth considering.noticeable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable . He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}
- The dismissal of a player who left Arsenal for Manchester City before joining Tottenham gave the home players and fans a noticeable lift.
considerable
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Adjective
(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}