What is "huge" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does huge mean in English? Meaning of huge definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "huge" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "huge": unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope

Adjective

  • Meaning: unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
  • Example: 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
  • Synonyms: brobdingnagian huge immense vast
  • Similar: big large
  • Adjective: Very large. The castle was huge. 1907, Robert W. Chambers, chapter VI, The Younger Set: “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, […] the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, […] the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!” 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, The China Governess[1]: The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […]. 2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:  [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.1907, Robert W. Chambers, chapter VI, The Younger Set: “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, […] the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, […] the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, The China Governess[1]: The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:  [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.(slang) Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded. Our next album is going to be huge!  In our league our coach is huge!
  • Synonyms:

    enormous, humongous, tremendous, great, monstrous, magnificent, giant, colossal, immense, monumental, mammoth, massive, gargantuan, towering, gigantic, extensive, vast, bulky, elephantine, gross, immeasurable, jumbo, lusty, mighty, monster, mountainous, planetary, prodigious, stupendous, titanic, whopping, cyclopean, walloping, behemothic, leviathan, mondo, outsize, oversize,

    Antonyms:

    insignificant, tiny, unimportant, miniature, minor, teeny, dwarf, little, minute, small, short, poor, miniscule, dwarfed, limited, narrow,

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