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Enormous Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Enormous?
[adj] extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree; "an enormous boulder"; "enormous expenses"; "tremendous sweeping plains"; "a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology"- Walter Lippman; "a plane took off with a tremendous noise"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Enormous: big | large | tremendous Related Terms | Find terms related to Enormous: a bit much | abandoned | abominable | abysmal | amplitudinous | arrant | astronomic | astronomical | Atlantean | atrocious | awesome | awful | base | beastly | beneath contempt | blameworthy | boundless | Brobdingnagian | brutal | bulky | colossal | contemptible | cosmic | Cyclopean | deplorable | despicable | detestable | dire | disgusting | dreadful | egregious | elephantine | epic | exaggerated | excessive | exorbitant | extensive | extravagant | extreme | fabulous | fancy | fetid | filthy | flagrant | foul | fulsome | galactic | Gargantuan | giant | giantlike | gigantic | gluttonous | grievous | gross | hateful | heinous | Herculean | heroic | high | Homeric | horrible | horrid | huge | hyperbolic | hypertrophied | immeasurable | immense | immoderate | incontinent | infamous | infinite | inordinate | intemperate | jumbo | king-size | lamentable | large | loathsome | lousy | mammoth | massive | massy | mighty | monster | monstrous | monumental | mountainous | nasty | nefarious | noisome | notorious | obnoxious | odious | offensive | out of bounds | out of sight | outrageous | outsize | overbig | overdeveloped | overgreat | overgrown | overlarge | overmuch | overweening | pitiable | pitiful | prodigious | profound | rank | regrettable | reprehensible | repulsive | rotten | sad | scandalous | schlock | scurvy | shabby | shameful | shocking | shoddy | sizable | sordid | spacious | squalid | steep | stiff | stupendous | terrible | titanic | too bad | too much | towering | tremendous | unbridled | unclean | unconscionable | undue | unreasonable | unrestrained | vast | vile | villainous | voluminous | weighty | woeful | worst | worthless | wretched See Also | Enormous In Webster's Dictionary \E*nor"mous\, a. [L. enormis enormous, out of rule; e
out + norma rule: cf. F. ['e]norme. See {Normal}.]
1. Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due
proportion; inordinate; abnormal. ``Enormous bliss.''
--Milton. ``This enormous state.'' --Shak. ``The hoop's
enormous size.'' --Jenyns.
Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait.
--Milton.
2. Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as,
an enormous crime.
That detestable profession of a life so enormous.
--Bale.
Syn: Huge; vast; immoderate; immense; excessive; prodigious;
monstrous.
Usage: -- {Enormous}, {Immense}, {Excessive}. We speak of a
thing as enormous when it overpasses its ordinary law
of existence or far exceeds its proper average or
standard, and becomes -- so to speak -- abnormal in
its magnitude, degree, etc.; as, a man of enormous
strength; a deed of enormous wickedness. Immense
expresses somewhat indefinitely an immeasurable
quantity or extent. Excessive is applied to what is
beyond a just measure or amount, and is always used in
an evil; as, enormous size; an enormous crime; an
immense expenditure; the expanse of ocean is immense.
``Excessive levity and indulgence are ultimately
excessive rigor.'' --V. Knox. ``Complaisance becomes
servitude when it is excessive.'' --La Rochefoucauld
(Trans).
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