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| Main Entry: |
humongous
 [hyoo-muhng-guhs, -mong- or, often, yoo-] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very large |
| Synonyms: | immense, prodigious |
| Antonyms: | small, tiny |
| 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: | colossal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very large |
| Synonyms: | barn door, behemothic, blimp, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, huge, humongous*, immense, jumbo, mammoth, mondo, monstrous, mountainous, super, titanic, vast |
| Antonyms: | small, teeny, tiny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Example Sentences
- On an airplane, there is always someone with a humongous bag who is crushing your poor hat in the overhead bin.
- The cost of refinancing this in the blighted capital markets would be humongous.
- Second, blast the drive with a humongous magnetic field.
| Main Entry: | elephantine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | huge |
| Synonyms: | behemothic, big, colossal, enormous, extensive, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, grand, great, humongous, immense, jumbo, large, mammoth, massive, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, titanic, towering |
| Main Entry: | enormous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very large |
| Synonyms: | astronomic, barn door, blimp, colossal, excessive, gargantuan, gigantic, gross, huge, humongous, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, monstrous, mountainous, prodigious, stupendous, super-colossal, titanic, tremendous, vast, whopping |
| Antonyms: | insignificant, little, minute, small, tiny |
| Main Entry: | fantastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enormous |
| Synonyms: | cracking, extreme, great, huge, humongous, massive, monstrous, monumental, overwhelming, prodigious, severe, stupendous, towering, tremendous |
| Antonyms: | little, small, tiny |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | giant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very large |
| Synonyms: | Herculean, big, blimp, brobdingnagian, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, gigantic, gross*, huge, hulking, humongous*, immense, jumbo, mammoth, monstrous*, mountainous, prodigious, super-duper, titanic, vast, whale of a, whaling |
| Antonyms: | dwarf, little, miniature, miniscule, minor, small, teeny, tiny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | great |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very large |
| Synonyms: | abundant, ample, big, big league, bulky, bull, colossal, considerable, decided, enormous, excessive, extended, extensive, extravagant, extreme, fat, gigantic, grievous, high, huge, humongous, husky, immense, inordinate, jumbo, lengthy, long, major league, mammoth, mondo, numerous, oversize, prodigious, prolonged, pronounced, protracted, strong, stupendous, terrible, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous |
| Antonyms: | few, little, miniature, minute, short, small |
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