Synonyms for enormous
- adjective
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Adjective
huge, large, gigantic, immense, colossal, tremendous, massive, prodigious, mammoth, big, gargantuan, vast, humongous informal, great, gurt UK, mighty, elephantine, stupendous, giant, inordinate, monstrous, herculean, infinite
Definitions
- adj. 1
Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.
The enormous Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System.
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- enormously enormousness
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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
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Example sentences
- huge Yesterday I went to the zoo and saw a huge walrus.
- immense Sailors spend weeks or months in the immense ocean.
- gigantic The Algiers Grand Mosque is a gigantic structure.
- colossal The project required a colossal amount of funding.
By length
- 3 letters
- big1
- 4 letters
- huge1, vast1, gurt
- 5 letters
- great1, large1, giant2
- 6 letters
- mighty2
- 7 letters
- massive2, immense2, mammoth2
- 8 letters
- infinite3, gigantic3, colossal3
- 9 letters
- monstrous2, humongous3, herculean4
- 10 letters
- tremendous3, prodigious3, stupendous3, gargantuan4, inordinate4
- 11 letters
- elephantine4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (giant2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- énorme
- Italiano
- enorme
- Español
- enorme
- Deutsch
- riesengroß