large
a garment size for a large person
• Hypernyms:
size
1. above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent (Freq. 139)
- a large city
- set out for the big city
- a large sum
- a big (or large) barn
- a large family
- big businesses
- a big expenditure
- a large number of newspapers
- a big group of scientists
- large areas of the world
• Syn:
big
• Ant:
little (for: big), small
• Similar to:
ample, sizable, sizeable, astronomic, astronomical,
galactic, bear-sized, bigger, larger, biggish, largish,
blown-up, enlarged, bouffant, puffy, broad, spacious,
wide, bulky, capacious, colossal, prodigious, stupendous,
deep, double, enormous, tremendous, cosmic, elephantine,
gargantuan, giant, jumbo, epic, heroic, larger-than-life,
extensive, extended, gigantic, mammoth, great, grand,
huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagian, hulking, hulky,
humongous, banging, thumping, whopping, walloping, king-size,
king-sized, large-mouthed, large-scale, life-size, lifesize, life-sized,
full-size, macroscopic, macroscopical, macro, man-sized, massive,
monolithic, monumental, medium-large, monstrous, mountainous, outsize,
outsized, oversize, oversized, overlarge, too large, plumping,
queen-size, queen-sized, rangy, super, titanic, volumed,
voluminous, whacking, wide-ranging
• Derivationally related forms:
bigness (for: big), largeness
• Attrubites:
size
2. fairly large or important in effect;
influential (Freq. 2)
- played a large role in the negotiations
• Similar to:
significant, important
• Derivationally related forms:
largeness
3. conspicuous in position or importance
- a big figure in the movement
- big man on campus
- he's very large in financial circles
- a prominent citizen
• Syn:
big, prominent
• Similar to:
conspicuous
• Derivationally related forms:
prominence (for: prominent)
4. generous and understanding and tolerant
- a heart big enough to hold no grudges
- that's very big of you to be so forgiving
- a large and generous spirit
- a large heart
- magnanimous toward his enemies
• Syn:
big, magnanimous
• Similar to:
generous
• Derivationally related forms:
magnanimousness (for: magnanimous), magnanimity (for: magnanimous)
5. ostentatiously lofty in style
- a man given to large talk
- tumid political prose
• Syn:
bombastic, declamatory, orotund, tumid, turgid
• Similar to:
rhetorical
• Derivationally related forms:
turgidness (for: turgid), turgidity (for: turgid), largeness, bombast (for: bombastic)
6. having broad power and range and scope
- taking the large view
- a large effect
- a large sympathy
• Similar to:
comprehensive
• Derivationally related forms:
largeness
7. in an advanced stage of pregnancy
- was big with child
- was great with child
• Syn:
big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great,
heavy, with child
• Similar to:
pregnant
• Derivationally related forms:
largeness, gravidness (for: gravid), gravidity (for: gravid), expect (for: expectant)
1. at a distance, wide of something (as of a mark)
2. with the wind abaft the beam
- a ship sailing large
3. in a boastful manner
- he talked big all evening
• Syn:
boastfully, vauntingly, big
• Derived from adjective:
boastful (for: boastfully)
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