Considerable vs Possible - What's the difference?
considerable | possible |
Significant; worth considering.
Large in amount.
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, title= * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 (usually, not comparable) Able but not certain to happen; neither inevitable nor impossible.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
(comparable) Capable of being done or achieved; feasible.
* {{quote-book, 1901, Louis Freeland Smith, The Public, volume=4, page=438, pageurl=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000080738168&page=search;seq=444;view=image;num=438
, passage=And success in minor degree, in the sense in which he uses the term "success," is only somewhat more possible than success in winning the White House chair.}}
* {{quote-news, 1993, September 10, Lee Michael Katz, Expectant Mideast hopes to bear twin peace deals, USA Today, page=2A
, passage=Peace between Israel and the Arab countries is "more possible than any time before," says ex-Arab League U.N. ambassador Clovis Maskoud. }}
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Being considered, e.g. for a position.
A possible one
(colloquial, rare) A possible choice, notably someone being considered for a position.
(rare) A particular event that may happen.
As adjectives the difference between considerable and possible
is that considerable is considerable while possible is (usually|not comparable) able but not certain to happen; neither inevitable nor impossible.As a noun possible is
a possible one.considerable
English
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.}}
Statistics
* ----possible
English
Adjective
(en-adj)citation
A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible . Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
Derived terms
* as much as possible * ASAP (as soon as possible) * possiblyAntonyms
* (able but not certain to happen) certain, inevitable, impossible * (capable of being done) impossibleNoun
(en noun)- Jones is a possible for the new opening in sales.