Appreciate
[ə'priːʃɪeɪt;-sɪ-] or [ə'priʃɪet]
Definition
(verb.) increase the value of; 'The Germans want to appreciate the Deutsche Mark'.
(verb.) gain in value; 'The yen appreciated again!'.
(verb.) be fully aware of; realize fully; 'Do you appreciate the full meaning of this letter?'.
(verb.) recognize with gratitude; be grateful for.
Editor: Natasha--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value.
(v. t.) To raise the value of; to increase the market price of; -- opposed to depreciate.
(v. t.) To be sensible of; to distinguish.
(v. i.) To rise in value. [See note under Rise, v. i.]
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Estimate justly, set a just value on, form a correct estimate of, value rightly.[2]. Estimate, esteem, value, rate.[3]. [U. S.] Raise the value of.
v. n. [U. S.] Rise in value, be worth more.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Esteem, recognize, acknowledge, respect, value, prize, regard, reckon,estimate
ANT:Undervalue, misconceive, misjudge, ignore, misappreciate
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Definition
v.t. to estimate justly to be fully sensible of all the good qualities in the thing judged: to estimate highly: to raise in value to advance the quotation or price of as opposed to depreciate.—v.i. to rise in value.—adj. Apprē′ciable.—adv. Apprē′ciably.—n. Appreciā′tion the act of setting a value on also specially of a work of literature or art: just—and also favourable—estimation: rise in exchangeable value: increase in value.—adjs. Apprē′ciative Apprē′ciatory implying appreciation.—n. Appreciā′tor one who appreciates or estimates justly.
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Examples
- I appreciate it very much. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Only those who know of the suffering endured in former times can fully appreciate the decrease in pain brought about by the proper use of narcotics. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But I can assure you that the Earl of Dovercourt would fail to appreciate them. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- You don't appreciate what a fine wife you have. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It is so easy to see the successful result, so difficult to appreciate the trials that have been undergone. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Newland will particularly appreciate what you have done because of dear May and his new relations. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- She knows the profits of it, but she don't appreciate the art of it, and she objects to it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The bread and coffee were highly appreciated. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He does this strange prospecting with an amount of gravity that can never be estimated or appreciated by a man who has not seen the operation. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Since that episode, which will probably be appreciated by most automobilists, Edison has taken up the electric automobile, and is now using it as well as developing it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I think we appreciated the great figure of David in the grand square, and the sculptured group they call the Rape of the Sabines. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- General Halleck appreciated the situation and, without being asked, forwarded reinforcements with all possible dispatch. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Quiet as you look, there is both a force and a depth somewhere within not easily reached or appreciated. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He appreciated its importance, and hastened to try to recover the line from us. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The pearl he admired was in itself of great price and truest purity, but he was not the man who, in appreciating the gemcould forget its setting. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It seems at times as if our capacity for appreciating originality were absorbed in the trivial eccentricities of fads and fashions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The French government, fully appreciating the importance of the invention, determined to purchase it from the patentee, and to throw it open to the public. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I would sooner send him away, though I know I am the only person who appreciates him, than have him, and not spend his money on himself. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She appreciates me better than any one else here; but then she has more intimate opportunities of knowing me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Depend upon it, he likes little Celia better, and she appreciates him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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