appreciate
To be grateful or thankful for.
Example
“I appreciate your efforts.”
Other meanings
To view as valuable.
“You must learn to appreciate time.”
To be fully conscious of; understand; be aware of; detect.
“It is essential for the reader to appreciate how important this argument is.”
Related words
- appreciatable
- appreciater
- appreciator
- apprecihate
- disappreciate
- misappreciate
- reappreciate
- underappreciate
- much appreciated
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "appretiātus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “appreciate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.