Enormous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Very great in size, extent, number, or degree.
  • adj. Archaic Very wicked; heinous.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary.
  • adj. Exceedingly wicked; atrocious or outrageous.
  • adj. Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal.
  • adj. Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Deviating from or transgressing the usual measure or rule; abnormal.
  • Spreading or extending beyond certain limits; redundant.
  • Greatly surpassing the common measure; exceeding the usual size: as, enormous debts; a man of enormous size.
  • Extremely wicked; uncommonly atrocious: as, enormous crime or guilt.
  • Disordered; perverse.
  • Synonyms Enormous, Immense, Excessive, huge, vast, monstrous, prodigious, gigantic, immoderate, unwieldy. The first three words agree in expressing greatness, and the first two vastness; anything, however small, is excessive if for some special reason too great in amount. Literally, enormous is out of rule, out of proportion; immense, unmeasured, immeasurable; excessive, going beyond bounds, surpassing what is fit, right, tolerable, etc. Enormous is peculiarly applicable to magnitude, primarily physical, but also moral: as, enormous egotism; immense, to extent, quantity, and number: as, an immense national debt; immense folly; excessive, to degree: as, an excessive dose; an excessive opinion of one's own merits.
  • Villainous, Abominable, etc. (see nefarious); heinous, atrocious.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree
  • Equivalent
    big    large   
    Antonym
    small   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    huge    monstrous    vast    excessive    immoderate    prodigious    immense    inordinate    abnormal    outrageous   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    huge    gigantic    tremendous    heavy    double