considerable

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree

   a considerable quantity

2. 2
   adj

   Significant; worth considering.

   Soon I became a considerable figure in the music industry.

3. 3
   adj

   Large in amount.

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   A thing to be considered, consideration.

   Statistes and Politicians, unto whom Ragione di Stato, is the first considerable, as though it were their businesse to deceive people, as a Maxime, do hold, that truth is to be concealed from them […]

Etymology

From consider + -able.