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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | large, great |
| Synonyms: | a whale of a, ample, awash, brimming, bulky, bull*, burly, capacious, chock-full, colossal, commodious, considerable, copious, crowded, enormous, extensive, fat, full, gigantic, heavy-duty, heavyweight, hefty, huge, hulking, humongous*, husky, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, mondo, monster*, oversize, packed, ponderous, prodigious, roomy, sizable, spacious, strapping, stuffed, substantial, super colossal, thundering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, walloping, whopper, whopping |
| Antonyms: | itsy, little, small, tiny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | big |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grown |
| Synonyms: | adult, elder, full-grown, grown-up, mature, tall |
| Antonyms: | adolescent, baby, babyish, infant, infantile, juvenile |
| Main Entry: | big |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | generous |
| Synonyms: | altruistic, benevolent, bighearted, chivalrous, considerate, free, gracious, greathearted, heroic, liberal, lofty, magnanimous, noble, princely, unselfish |
| Antonyms: | selfish, ungenerous, ungiving |
| Main Entry: | big |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant |
| Synonyms: | arty, boastful, bragging, conceited, flamboyant, haughty, high-sounding, imperious, imposing, inflated, overblown, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, proud |
| Antonyms: | humble, shy, unconfident |
| Main Entry: | better |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excelling, more excellent |
| Synonyms: | bigger, choice, exceeding, exceptional, finer, fitter, greater, higher quality, improved, larger, more appropriate, more desirable, more fitting, more select, more suitable, more useful, more valuable, preferable, preferred, prominent, sharpened, sophisticated, souped up, superior, surpassing, worthier |
| Notes: | better is greater in excellence or higher in quality; more useful; more highly skilled; healthier than before - while bettor is someone who bets |
| Antonyms: | worse |
| Main Entry: | better |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | larger |
| Synonyms: | bigger, greater, longer, more, preponderant, weightier |
| Notes: | better is greater in excellence or higher in quality; more useful; more highly skilled; healthier than before - while bettor is someone who bets |
| Antonyms: | littler, smaller, tinier |
| Main Entry: | higher |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | taller |
| Synonyms: | above, bigger, greater, larger than, more advanced, over, superior to, surpassing |
| Antonyms: | inferior, shorter, smaller |
| Main Entry: | larger |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | best |
| Synonyms: | better, bigger, bulkier, greater, largest, longer, more, most, preponderant, weightier |
| Main Entry: | acceptable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | satisfactory, agreeable |
| Synonyms: | A-OK, adequate, admissible, all right, average, big*, common, cooking with gas, cool*, copacetic, decent, delightful, fair, hep, hip*, hunky-dory, in the swim, kosher*, large, okay, on the ball, on the beam, passable, peachy keen, pleasant, pleasing, respectable, right on, standard, sufficient, swell*, tolerable, trendy, unexceptional, unobjectionable, up to code, up to snuff, welcome |
| Antonyms: | disagreeable, disturbing, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, unwelcome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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