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LARGE

  • (noun) a garment size for a large person

  • (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"

    synonyms : big

  • (adverb) in a boastful manner

    "he talked big all evening"

    synonyms : big , boastfully , vauntingly

  • (adverb) with the wind abaft the beam

    "a ship sailing large"

  • (adverb) at a distance, wide of something (as of a mark)

  • (adj.) in an advanced stage of pregnancy

    "was big with child", "was great with child"

    synonyms : big , enceinte , expectant , gravid , great , heavy , with child

  • (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"

    synonyms : big , prominent

    The city’s prominent personalities had gathered at the opening ceremony. -added by naila_inlas

  • (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"

    synonyms : big , magnanimous

  • (adj.) ostentatiously lofty in style

    "a man given to large talk", "tumid political prose"

    synonyms : bombastic , declamatory , orotund , tumid , turgid

    His speeches are truly bombastic. -added by naila_inlas

  • (adj.) fairly large or important in effect; influential

    "played a large role in the negotiations"

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.


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