Huge
[hjuːdʒ] or [hjudʒ]
Definition
(adj.) unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; 'huge government spending'; 'huge country estates'; 'huge popular demand for higher education'; 'a huge wave'; 'the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains'; 'immense numbers of birds'; 'at vast (or immense) expense'; 'the vast reaches of outer space'; 'the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization'- W.R.Inge .
Checker: Mandy--From WordNet
Definition
(superl.) Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; -- used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as, a huge ox; a huge space; a huge difference.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Vast, bulky, enormous, immense, stupendous, gigantic, colossal, elephantine, Herculean, Cyclopean, very great, very large.
Typist: Theodore
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Enormous, monstrous, colossal, vast, bulky, large, great, prodigious, immense,stupendous, gigantic
ANT:Petty, undersized, pigmy, puny
Edited by Daniel
Definition
adj. having great dimensions especially height: enormous: monstrous: (B.) large in number.—adv. Huge′ly.—n. Huge′ness.
Typist: Terrence
Examples
- All Russia now is a huge experiment in that dictatorship (August, 1920). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The weight of old Sabor was immense, and when she braced her huge paws nothing less than Tantor, the elephant, himself, could have budged her. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- When she sang, every note thrilled in his dull soul, and tingled through his huge frame. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The glyptodon was a monstrous South American armadillo, and a human skeleton has been found by Roth buried beneath its huge tortoise-like shell. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is next passed to the cooking department and placed in huge steam-jacketed kettles, which revolve continually and thus keep the chicle from scorching. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This moment was one of intense interest, the huge bulk gliding as gently and easily forward as if she had been but a small boat. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- But how puny and harmless they now looked beside this huge and terrific incarnation of hate, of vengeance and of death. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- At last he saw it, not twenty feet away--the long, lithe, muscular body and tawny head of a huge black-maned lion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The Englishman sprang quickly after him just in time to see the hind quarters of some huge animal about to disappear through the window of the cabin. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- There is a huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Nelson's Garden's Rowan Huger's Battalion. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Norfolk Light Huger Mclntosh 's Battalion. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He never was well dressed; but he took the hugest pains to adorn his big person, and passed many hours daily in that occupation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The material excavated consisted largely of rock and formed one of the hugest engineering problems in the world’s history. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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