different between unmistakable vs appreciable

English

Alternative forms

• unmistakeable

Etymology

un- +? mistake +? -able

Pronunciation

Adjective

unmistakable (comparative more unmistakable, superlative most unmistakable)

1. Unique, such that it cannot be mistaken for something else.

   Antonym: mistakable

   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X

     Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.

Translations

English

Etymology

From French appréciable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p?i???bl/

Adjective

appreciable (comparative more appreciable, superlative most appreciable)

1. Large enough to be estimated; perceptible; considerable.
   • 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, 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.

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References

• appreciable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.