Word meaning the opposite of "negligible"?
"Negligible" roughly means "Small enough to essentially be zero." For example, in high school physics problems, air resistance is negligible. Is there a word that means "large enough to be essentially infinite"? For example, "For someone on a bike, the distance to the other side of the world is ______."
Solution 1:
Are you looking for "immensurable" or "immeasurable"?
immensurable (adj) immeasurable, impossible to measure TFD
- "He was a man who displayed immensurable courage even in the face of overwhelming adversity."
- "The immensurable magnitude of some stars."
- "Its applicability is immensurable."
Solution 2:
I would say it's substantial.
substantial adj
1. Considerable in importance, value, degree, amount, or extent:
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(Note that you could go with considerable itself as well.)