English > big: 17 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | 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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