Definition of big Big
/bɪˈg/ - [big] - big
We found 46 definitions of big from 6 different sources.
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WordNet
Adjectivebig, bigger, biggest |
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| big - given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather" | ||
| bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded | ||
| generous more than adequate; "a generous portion" | ||
| big - in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child" | ||
| enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, large, heavy, with child | ||
| pregnant carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life | ||
| big - 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" | ||
| large, prominent | ||
| conspicuous obvious to the eye or mind; "a tower conspicuous at a great distance"; "wore conspicuous neckties"; "made herself conspicuous by her exhibitionistic preening" | ||
| big - 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" | ||
| large, magnanimous | ||
| generous more than adequate; "a generous portion" | ||
| big - significant; "graduation was a big day in his life" | ||
| of import, important of great significance or value; "important people"; "the important questions of the day" | ||
| big - feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride" | ||
| swelled, vainglorious | ||
| proud feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride; "proud parents"; "proud of his accomplishments"; "a proud moment"; "proud to serve his country"; "a proud name"; "proud princes" | ||
| big - marked by intense physical force; "a big wind" | ||
| big - loud and firm; "a big voice"; "big bold piano sounds" | ||
| big - prodigious; "big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor" | ||
| heavy | ||
| big - 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" | ||
| large | ||
| little, small small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context); "a nice little job"; "bless your little heart"; "my dear little mother"; "a sweet little deal"; "I'm tired of your petty little schemes"; "filthy little tricks"; "what a nasty little situation" | ||
| sizable, sizeable, ample affording an abundant supply; "had ample food for the party"; "copious provisions"; "food is plentiful"; "a plenteous grape harvest"; "a rich supply" | ||
| astronomic, astronomical, galactic inconceivably large | ||
| bear-sized large as a bear | ||
| bigger, larger large or big relative to something else | ||
| biggish, largish somewhat large | ||
| blown-up, enlarged as of a photograph; made larger; "the enlarged photograph revealed many details" | ||
| bouffant, puffy being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing; "a bouffant skirt" | ||
| spacious, wide, broad not on target; "the kick was wide"; "the arrow was wide of the mark"; "a claim that was wide of the truth" | ||
| bulky of large size for its weight | ||
| capacious large in capacity; "she carried a capacious bag" | ||
| colossal, stupendous, prodigious so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; "colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"; "has a colossal nerve"; "a prodigious storm"; "a stupendous field of grass"; "stupendous demand" | ||
| deep exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy; "deep political machinations"; "a deep plot" | ||
| double having two meanings with intent to deceive; "a sly double meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue" | ||
| enormous, tremendous 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" | ||
| cosmic inconceivably extended in space or time | ||
| elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumbo of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp" | ||
| larger-than-life, epic, heroic very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale); "an epic voyage"; "of heroic proportions"; "heroic sculpture" | ||
| extensive, extended large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity; "an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England"; "extended farm lands"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "they suffered extensive damage" | ||
| gigantic, mammoth so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth; "a gigantic redwood"; "gigantic disappointment"; "a mammoth ship"; "a mammoth multinational corporation" | ||
| great of major significance or importance; "a great work of art"; "Einstein was one of the outstanding figures of the 20th centurey" | ||
| grand the most important and magnificent in adornment; "grand ballroom"; "grand staircase" | ||
| huge, immense, vast, brobdingnagian 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 | ||
| hulking, hulky of great size and bulk; "a hulking figure of a man"; "three hulking battleships" | ||
| banging, humongous, thumping, walloping, whopping (used informally) very large; "a thumping loss" | ||
| king-size, king-sized extra large; "a king-size bed" | ||
| large-mouthed having a relatively large mouth | ||
| large-scale unusually large in scope; "a large-scale attack on AIDS is needed" | ||
| large-scale unusually large in scope; "a large-scale attack on AIDS is needed" | ||
| full-size, life-size, life-sized, lifesize being of the same size as an original; "a life-size sculpture" | ||
| macroscopic, macroscopical large enough to be visible with the naked eye | ||
| macro very large in scale or scope or capability | ||
| man-sized very large; appropriate to the size of a man; "a man-sized piece of cake" | ||
| monolithic, monumental, massive characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity; "a monolithic society"; "a monolithic worldwide movement" | ||
| massive consisting of great mass; containing a great quantity of matter; "Earth is the most massive of the terrestrial planets" | ||
| medium-large of anything that is large but not the largest | ||
| monstrous abnormally large | ||
| mountainous containing many mountains | ||
| outsize, outsized, oversize, oversized larger than normal for its kind | ||
| overlarge, too large excessively large | ||
| plumping very large; of exceptional size for its kind; "won by a plumping majority" | ||
| queen-size, queen-sized (used especially of beds) not as large as king-size; "a queen-sized bed" | ||
| rangy allowing ample room for ranging | ||
| super including more than a specified category; "a super experiment" | ||
| titanic of great force or power | ||
| volumed furnished with volumes; "a large room volumed with ancient books" | ||
| voluminous large in volume or bulk; "a voluminous skirt" | ||
| whacking (British informal) enormous; "a whacking phone bill"; "a whacking lie" | ||
| big - (of animals) fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown woman" | ||
| adult, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup | ||
| mature fully considered and perfected; "mature plans" | ||
| animal, animate being, beast, brute, fauna, creature a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | ||
| big - exhibiting self-importance; "big talk" | ||
| boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandising | ||
| proud feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride; "proud parents"; "proud of his accomplishments"; "a proud moment"; "proud to serve his country"; "a proud name"; "proud princes" | ||
| big - very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm" | ||
| bad | ||
| intense (of color) having the highest saturation; "vivid green"; "intense blue" | ||
Adverb |
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| big - on a grand scale; "think big" | ||
| big - in a major way; "the play failed big at the box office" | ||
| big - extremely well; "his performance went over big" | ||
| big - in a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening" | ||
| boastfully, vauntingly, large | ||
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Wiktionary 
- big (Noun)
An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name . - big (Noun)
The big league s, big time . - big (Verb)
To praise or recommend. - big (Adverb)
In a loud manner. - big (Adverb)
In a boasting manner. - big (Adverb)
In a large amount or to a large extent. - big (Adverb)
On a large scale, expansively. - big (Adverb)
Hard. - big (Adjective)
Of great size, large. - big (Adjective)
Thought to have undue influence. - big (Adjective)
Popular. - big (Adjective)
Adult. - big (Adjective)
Fat. - big (Adjective)
Important or significant. - big (Adjective)
Enthusiastic about. - big (Adjective)
Mature, conscientious, principled. - big (Adjective)
Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case of a man.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- big (superl.)
Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large. - big (superl.)
Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively. - big (superl.)
Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride. - big (n.)
Alt. of Bigg - big (v. t.)
Alt. of Bigg
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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big
Of a great size; the weakest sense of great size. -
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Having relevant and crucial value. -
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(for abstract matters) of larger than normal size. -
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In a major way.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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big
big, adj. large or great: pregnant: great in air, mien, or spirit: loud: pompous, esp. 'to talk big,' 'look big.'—adjs. Big-bell′ied, having a big belly; pregnant (with); Big′gish, rather big.—ns. Big′ness, bulk, size; Big′wig (colloq.), a leading man, a person of some importance. [M. E. big; origin very obscure—Skeat suggests that it is bilg, the l being dropped, and compares Ice. belgja, to puff out.] -
big
big, v.t. (Scot.) to build, to pile up.—n. Big′gin, anything built, a house. [Sc. byggja; A.S. búian.]
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🔤- big, verb, present, 1st person singular of big (infinitive).
- big, verb (infinitive).
- big, adjective.
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