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[ adverb ] to a noticeable degree
Examples "they weather was appreciably colder" Used in print (David Boroff, "Jewish Teen-Age Culture"...)It is interesting that , although the percentage of married students is not appreciably higher at Brooklyn than elsewhere - about 30 per_cent of the women and 25 per_cent of the men in the graduating_class - the anxiety of the unmarried has puffed_up the estimate . (H. A. Gleason, "Review of African language studies...)He concludes that some changes can made in the current orthography which will appreciably improve its usefulness , but hesitates to suggest precise graphic devices to effect these changes . Related terms |
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