OUTSIZE

outsize, outsized, oversize, oversized

(adjective) larger than normal for its kind

outsize

(noun) an unusual garment size (especially one that is very large)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

outsize (plural outsizes)

an unusually large garment size

Synonyms

• (initialism) OS

Adjective

outsize (not comparable)

of an unusually large size [from the later 19th c.]

Synonyms

• outsized

Verb

outsize (third-person singular simple present outsizes, present participle outsizing, simple past and past participle outsized)

to exceed in size

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

15 April 2025

DOOMED

(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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