English > big: 17 senses > adjective 1Meaning | Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent. |
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Examples | - "set out for the big city"
- "a big (or large) barn"
- "big businesses"
- "a big expenditure"
- "a big group of scientists"
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Synonym | large |
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Attribute of | size | The physical magnitude of something (how big it is) |
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Narrower | ample, sizable, sizeable | Fairly large |
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astronomic, astronomical, galactic | inconceivably large |
bear-sized | large as a bear |
bigger, larger | large or big relative to something else |
biggish, largish | Somewhat large |
blown-up, enlarged | As of a photograph |
bouffant, puffy | Puffed out |
broad, spacious, wide | Very large in expanse or scope |
bulky | Of large size for its weight |
capacious | large in capacity |
colossal, prodigious, stupendous | So great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe |
cosmic | inconceivably extended in space or time |
deep | large in quantity or size |
double | large enough for two |
elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumbo | Of great mass |
enormous, tremendous | extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree |
epic, heroic, larger-than-life | Very imposing or impressive |
extensive, extended | large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity |
gigantic, mammoth | So exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth |
grand | large and impressive in physical size or extent |
great | relatively large in size or number or extent |
huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagian | unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope |
hulking, hulky | Of great size and bulk |
humongous, banging, thumping, whopping, walloping | (used informally) very large |
king-size, king-sized | Extra large |
large-mouthed | Having a relatively large mouth |
large-scale | unusually large in scope |
large-scale | Constructed or drawn to a big scale |
life-size, lifesize, life-sized, full-size | Of the same size as an original |
macro | Very large in scale or scope or capability |
macroscopic, macroscopical | Large enough to be visible with the naked eye |
man-sized | Very large |
massive, monolithic, monumental | imposing in size or bulk or solidity |
massive | imposing in scale or scope or degree or power |
medium-large | Of anything that is large but not the largest |
monstrous | abnormally large |
mountainous | like a mountain in size and impressiveness |
outsize, outsized, oversize, oversized | larger than normal for its kind |
overlarge, too large | excessively large |
plumping | Very large |
queen-size, queen-sized | (used especially of beds) not as large as king-size |
rangy | Allowing ample room for ranging |
super | Extremely large |
titanic | Of great force or power |
volumed | formed or rising in rounded masses |
voluminous | large in volume or bulk |
whacking | (British informal) enormous |
wide-ranging | Including much |
See also | considerable | large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree |
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tall | Great in vertical dimension |
Opposite | small, little | Limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent |
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Spanish | gran, grande |
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Catalan | gran, llarg |
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Nouns | bigness | the property of having a relatively great size |
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