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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | heavy |
| Synonyms: | abundant, ample, awkward, beefy, big*, built, bulky, burdensome, chunky, considerable, copious, corpulent, cumbersome, cumbrous, elephantine, enceinte, excessive, expectant, fat, fleshy, gravid, gross*, hefty, huge, l, laden, large, lead-footed, loaded |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | heavyweight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dignitary |
| Synonyms: | VIP, big gun, big kahuna, bigshot, bigwig, celebrity, character, eminence, leader, lion, luminary, nabob, notability, notable, official, person of influence, personage, star, top cat |
| Main Entry: | big |
| 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: | important |
| Synonyms: | big league, big-time, consequential, considerable, eminent, heavy-duty, heavyweight, influential, leading, main, major league, material, meaningful, momentous, paramount, popular, powerful, prime, principal, prominent, serious, significant, substantial, super, super colossal, valuable, weighty |
| Antonyms: | blah, bland, dull, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | big shot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very important person |
| Synonyms: | VIP, big cat, big cheese, big cheese, big fish, big gun, big gun, big man on campus, big wheel, big wheel, bigwig, bigwig, celebrity, dignitary, fat cat, head honcho, heavy-hitter, heavy-hitter, heavyweight, high man on the totem pole, high-muck-a-muck, important person, influential person, mogul, nabob, notable, personage, somebody |
| Main Entry: | celebrity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dignitary |
| Synonyms: | VIP, ace, big cheese, big deal, big gun, big name, big shot, big stuff, bigwig, celeb, cynosure, famous person, figure, heavyweight, hero, hotshot, immortal, lion*, luminary, magnate, mahatma, major leaguer, name, notable, personage, personality, somebody, someone, star, superstar, the cheese, worthy |
| Antonyms: | nobody |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | executive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who manages an organization |
| Synonyms: | CEO, CO, VIP, administration, administrator, big wheel, boss, brass, businessperson, chief, commander, director, directorate, entrepreneur, exec, government, governor, head, head honcho, head person, heavyweight, hierarchy, higher-up, industrialist, key player, leader, leadership, management, manager, officer, official, skipper, supervisor, top brass, tycoon |
| Main Entry: | foremost |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | first in rank, order |
| Synonyms: | A-1, A-number-1, arch, at the cutting edge, at the leading edge, champion, chief, front, head, headmost, heavy, heavy stuff, heavyweight, highest, hot stuff, hotdog, hotshot, inaugural, initial, leading, most important, number one, original, paramount, preeminent, premier, primary, prime, primo, principal, supreme |
| Antonyms: | inferior, last, least, lowest, secondary, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | gargantuan |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very large |
| Synonyms: | big, colossal, elephantine, enormous, giant, gigantic, heavyweight, huge, humongous, immense, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, massive, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, super-colossal, super-duper, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, whopping |
| Antonyms: | little, miniscule, small, tiny |
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