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[n] a garment size for a large person
[adv] in a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening"
[adv] with the wind abaft the beam; "a ship sailing large"
[adv] at a distance, wide of something (as of a mark)
[adj] having broad power and range and scope; "taking the large view"; "a large effect"; "a large sympathy"
[adj] conspicuous in position or importance; "a big figure in the movement"; "big man on campus"; "he's very large in financial circles"; "a prominent citizen"
[adj] generous and understanding and tolerant; "a heart big enough to hold no grudges"; "that's very big of you to be so forgiving"; "a large and generous spirit"; "a large heart"; "magnanimous toward his enemies"
[adj] above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world"
[adj] large enough to be visible to the naked eye
[adj] ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
[adj] fairly large or important in effect; influential; "played a large role in the negotiations"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Large: ample | astronomic | astronomical | banner | big | big | bigger | biggest | biggish | blown-up | boastfully | bombastic | bouffant | broad | bulky | capacious | colossal | comprehensive | conspicuous | cosmic | declamatory | deep | double | elephantine | enlarged | enormous | epic | extended | extensive | full-size | galactic | gargantuan | generous | giant | gigantic | great | greatest | gross | heroic | huge | hulking | hulky | humongous | immense | important | jumbo | king-size | king-sized | larger | larger-than-life | large-scale | largest | largish | lifesize | life-size | life-sized | macro | macroscopic | macroscopical | magnanimous | mammoth | man-sized | massive | megascopic | monolithic | monstrous | monumental | mountainous | obvious | orotund | outsize | outsized | overlarge | oversize | oversized | plumping | prodigious | prominent | puffy | queen-size | queen-sized | rangy | rhetorical | significant | sizable | sizeable | spacious | stupendous | super | thumping | titanic | too large | tremendous | tumid | turgid | vast | vauntingly | volumed | voluminous | walloping | whacking | whopping | wide | wide-ranging

Related Terms | Find terms related to Large: adipose | altogether | ample | amplitudinous | as a whole | astronomical | at large | at liberty | awesome | beamy | beneficent | big | bighearted | boundless | bounteous | bountiful | brawny | broad | Brobdingnagian | bulky | bull | bumper | burly | capacious | charitable | chiefly | chunky | colossal | considerable | corpulent | cosmic | eleemosynary | elephantine | eminently | enormous | excessive | exorbitant | extensive | extravagant | extreme | fat | free | freehanded | freehearted | galactic | Gargantuan | generally | generous | gigantic | giving | good | goodly | gracious | grand | great | greathearted | handsome | healthy | heavy | hefty | hospitable | huge | humongous | husky | immeasurable | immense | immoderate | imposingly | in a body | in general | in the main | infinite | inordinate | jumbo | kind | king-size | largehearted | large-scale | lavish | liberal | magnanimous | mainly | major | mammoth | man-sized | massive | massy | monster | monstrous | monumental | mountainous | munificent | muscular | numerous | obese | on the loose | open | openhanded | open-handed | openhearted | outsize | overgrown | overweight | philanthropic | portly | princely | prodigious | profuse | prominently | rotund | sizable | sizeable | solid | spacious | staggering | stintless | stocky | stout | strapping | stupendous | sturdy | substantial | tall | thickset | tidy | titanic | tremendous | unconfined | unfettered | ungrudging | unrestrained | unselfish | unsparing | unstinted | unstinting | vast | voluminous | weighty | wide

See Also | size

Large In Webster's Dictionary

\Large\, a. [Compar. {Larger}; superl. {Largest}.] [F., fr. L. largus. Cf. {Largo}.] 1. Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; great; capacious; extensive; -- opposed to {small}; as, a large horse; a large house or room; a large lake or pool; a large jug or spoon; a large vineyard; a large army; a large city. Note: For linear dimensions, and mere extent, great, and not large, is used as a qualifying word; as, great length, breadth, depth; a great distance; a great height. 2. Abundant; ample; as, a large supply of provisions. We hare yet large day. --Milton. 3. Full in statement; diffuse; full; profuse. I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education. -- Felton. 4. Having more than usual power or capacity; having broad sympathies and generous impulses; comprehensive; -- said of the mind and heart. 5. Free; unembarrassed. [Obs.] Of burdens all he set the Paynims large. --Fairfax. 6. Unrestrained by decorum; -- said of language. [Obs.] ``Some large jests he will make.'' --Shak. 7. Prodigal in expending; lavish. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 8. (Naut.) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter. {At large}. (a) Without restraint or confinement; as, to go at large; to be left at large. (b) Diffusely; fully; in the full extent; as, to discourse on a subject at large. {Common at large}. See under {Common}, n. {Electors at large}, {Representative at large}, electors, or a representative, as in Congress, chosen to represent the whole of a State, in distinction from those chosen to represent particular districts in a State. [U. S.] {To give, go, run, or sail large} (Naut.), to have the wind crossing the direction of a vessel's course in such a way that the sails feel its full force, and the vessel gains its highest speed. See {Large}, a., 8. Syn: Big; bulky; huge; capacious; comprehensive; ample; abundant; plentiful; populous; copious; diffusive; liberal.
\Large\, adv. Freely; licentiously. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
\Large\, n. (Mus.) A musical note, formerly in use, equal to two longs, four breves, or eight semibreves.

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