Adjective

(en adjective)

Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.

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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

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Adjective

(en adjective)

Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; considerable.

* 1865 , , Our Mutual Friend , ch. 15:

A grain of musk will scent a drawer for many years, and still lose nothing appreciable of its original weight.

* 1915 , , Something New , ch. 1:

For an appreciable time he did not think of rising from his seat.

* 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:

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.