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HUGE
huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagian
(adjective) 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
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
huge (comparative huger, superlative hugest)
Very large.
(slang) Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded.
Synonyms
• (very large): colossal, elephantine, enormous, giant, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast.
• See also gigantic
Antonyms
• (very large): tiny, small, minuscule, midget, dwarf
Anagrams
• e-hug, eugh, gehu
Source: Wiktionary
Huge, a. [Compar. Huger; superl. Hugest.] Etym: [OE. huge, hoge, OF. ahuge, ahoge.]
Definition: 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. "The huge confusion." Chapman. "A huge filly." Jer. Taylor.
– Huge"ly, adv.
– Huge"ness, n. Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea. Shak.
Syn.
– Enormous; gigantic; colossal; immense; prodigious; vast.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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