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APPRECIATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fully understood or grasped
Example:
a thing comprehended is a thing known as fully as it can be known
Synonyms:
appreciated; apprehended; comprehended
Classified under:
Similar:
understood (fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb appreciate
Context examples:
And now I had a view of all those points of etiquette and curious survivals of custom which are so recent, that we have not yet appreciated that they may some day be as interesting to the social historian as they then were to the sportsman.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Diana and Mary were soon to leave Moor House, and return to the far different life and scene which awaited them, as governesses in a large, fashionable, south-of-England city, where each held a situation in families by whose wealthy and haughty members they were regarded only as humble dependants, and who neither knew nor sought out their innate excellences, and appreciated only their acquired accomplishments as they appreciated the skill of their cook or the taste of their waiting-woman.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Her merit in being gifted by Nature with strength and courage was fully appreciated by the Miss Bertrams; her delight in riding was like their own; her early excellence in it was like their own, and they had great pleasure in praising it.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I am giving these details so that the size of this little floating world which holds twenty-two men may be appreciated.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
When I first tried to write, I had nothing to write about except a few paltry experiences which I neither understood nor appreciated.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The fact was, of course, appreciated at King’s Pyland, where the Colonel’s training-stable is situated.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mr. Micawber is going to a distant country expressly in order that he may be fully understood and appreciated for the first time.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
At long last, your talents will be acknowledged, appreciated, and applauded.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Mr. Summerlee declared, with an acid smile, that he fully appreciated the difference between the Thames and the Amazon, which lay in the fact that any assertion about the former could be tested, while about the latter it could not.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Laying her head on her arms, Jo wet her little romance with a few happy tears, for she had thought that no one saw and appreciated her efforts to be good, and this assurance was doubly precious, doubly encouraging, because unexpected and from the person whose commendation she most valued.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
