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- Dictionaryhuge/(h)yo͞oj/
adjective
- 1. extremely large; enormous: "a huge area"
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B1. extremely large in size or amount: They live in a huge house. The costs involved in building a spacecraft are huge. A huge number of people attended. His last three movies have all been huge successes. Synonyms. enormous. vast. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. greater than the average size or amount.
The meaning of HUGE is very large or extensive. How to use huge in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Huge.
B1. extremely large in size or amount: They live in a huge house. The costs involved in building a spacecraft are huge. A huge number of people attended. His last three movies have all been huge successes. Synonyms. enormous. vast. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. greater than the average size or amount.
huge implies massiveness, bulkiness, or even shapelessness: a huge mass of rock; a huge collection of antiques. enormous, literally out of the norm, applies to what exceeds in extent, magnitude, or degree, a norm or standard: an enormous iceberg. tremendous, in informal use, applies to anything so huge as to be astonishing or to inspire awe: a ...
Huge is a relative word — there’s no specific degree or size something has to reach before you can say it’s huge. You can eat a huge piece of cake, or go see huge elephants in the zoo. Cake and elephants are both concrete things, but huge can also describe things that aren’t actual objects.
Definition of huge adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
extraordinarily large in bulk, quantity, or extent: a huge ship; a huge portion of ice cream. Synonyms: bulky, stupendous, vast, colossal, gigantic, mammoth. Antonyms: diminutive, tiny, small. of unbounded extent, scope, or character; limitless: the huge genius of Mozart.
1. Of exceedingly great size, extent, or quantity. See Synonyms at enormous. 2. Of exceedingly great scope or nature: the huge influence of the Hellenic world. 3. Informal Contributing in a major way to success; very important: The defensive line was huge in the second half. [Middle English, from Old French ahuge .] huge′ly adv. huge′ness n.
extremely large: a huge house. a huge piece of cake. Fewer examples. The museum houses a huge collection of paintings. We'll see such huge changes in our lifetime. Breakfast was delicious - and the portions were huge! They've dug a huge hole in the road. The accident had a huge effect on her life.
Very large; gigantic; immense. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Of exceedingly great scope or nature. The huge influence of the Hellenic world. American Heritage. Very great, important, powerful, extensive, etc. Webster's New World. Contributing in a major way to success; very important. The defensive line was huge in the second half.
